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The anthology, edited and translated by Zdravko Malić, a leading Croatian Polish scholar and founder of the Polish Language Department at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Zagreb, represents a key selection of Polish short fiction from the 20th century.
The Christmas Pudding Adventure (1960) is a collection of six crime stories by Agatha Christie, in which five cases are solved by Hercule Poirot and one by Miss Marple.
The First Haircut, a short story written in 1970 and published in 1976, is the first in a series of prose pieces by Bohumil Hrabal describing Nymburk, the town where he spent his childhood. In 1981, The First Haircut was adapted for the screen by Jiry Men
Collections of short stories from Roman life in the post-war era: ordinary people from the people and the petty bourgeoisie – the poor, workers, small craftsmen – face misery, survival, jealousy, petty deceit and moral compromises in everyday life.
The book contains about twenty stories connected into one whole by the main character (the writer Oskar). It is, therefore, a kind of novel that, through intimate confessions, actually talks about the loneliness of the modern intellectual.
The book is not a novel, but a collection that mixes short stories, drama, and essay fragments, with a focus on death, power, and existential dilemmas.