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The Buddenbrooks is not just a family chronicle – it is a profound, melancholic fresco of how time and change inexorably creep into the core of a respectable bourgeois family, bringing with them a downfall that is both tragic and inevitable.
This novel, which was first published in 1965, is known for its themes of crime, revenge, and the psychological aspects of characters, especially those with disturbed behavior.
The novel itself is conceptually carried by a lucid comparison of Dalmatia and the Wild West: on a thematic level, cowboys are the mythical place of the childhood of the main character and her brother.
Can you face the taboos of modern society? Old age, illness, weakness. Slavenka Drakulić bravely enters into topics we are reluctant to talk about.
People always think they know who the sponsor is: a calculating, not-so-bad-looking woman who married for money.
A story from a Zagreb neighborhood patiently, concentratedly, and intelligently unfolds before the reader's eyes.