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"Colas Breugnon" is a charming romance of life in Burgundy three hundred years ago. It is an "autobiographical" novel, the story being told in the first person by Colas, who reviews his fifty years of life, and describes all its joys and sorrows.
In this work, written during World War I, Rolland contrasts the destructive hatred with the joy of life, humor, and solidarity. Kola is a kind of Burgundian Falstaff or Rabelais' Gargantua – rough but noble, earthly but deeply humane.
A doctor, oil, unknown diseases, a brave nurse... Enough for the book to arouse the interest of female readers.
In his stories, the author intertwines real city toponyms and supernatural phenomena with motifs from Meyrink's mystical novels about Prague and magical realism of the Borges type.
Tragic and comic, poetic and bizarre, melancholic and grotesque intertwine on the pages of this book. For this novel, Selenić received the NIN award for 1980.
This work is an unexpected beauty and surprise. The author tries to communicate something about the nature of life and death, existence and non-existence, which bends perception into new and challenging forms.