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Bohumil Hrabal, a Czech writer known for his lyrical grotesque and humor, in his novel The Town Where Time Stood Still evokes childhood in the small town of Libeň (part of Prague), where time seems to stand still in a magical but melancholic world.
Today, both in the Church and in the world, we encounter many serious, worried, and thoughtful faces; there is too little cheerfulness, smiles, humor, and joy. This says a lot about us and our times.
In his book Osijekians, where are you, if you were... (1994), Alojzije Šmit presents a humorous and nostalgic social chronicle through the character of the pensioner Lojzek.
Dead Souls (1842) is a brilliant satire that exposes the moral and social rot of imperial Russia through Chichikov's fraud with dead serfs, with Gogol's virtuoso mix of humor, irony and lyricism.
The comedy "The Marriage of Figaro, or The Mad Day" (1784) is a sequel to The Barber of Seville. The Marriage of Figaro criticizes social injustices through love affairs and intrigue, celebrating Figaro and Susanna's ingenuity in the fight against aristoc
The Ballads of Petrica Kerempuh is a collection of poems by Miroslav Krleža, published in 1936, in which the poet, through the character of the folk sage and satirist Petrica Kerempuh, depicts the difficult history of the Croatian people, especially the p