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A generational novel set in the late 1990s, in provincial Croatia. The main character, a thirty-five-year-old journalist in a deep professional and existential crisis, returns from Zagreb to his hometown after years of working in sensationalist media.
As much as Foliranti is a story about Kapor's student days in Belgrade in the late fifties, Provincial is a book that evokes memories of his childhood in Sarajevo, where the author spent the first years of his life.
Jaromil, a young poet raised by a possessive mother, seeks a "real life" in poetry and revolution. His lyrical youth, love, and idealism lead him into conformity and betrayal of intimate relationships – he dies young and unfulfilled.
He has marked the contemporary era like few others, and his heroes or "heroes" with their emotional and moral dilemmas, weighed down by existential anxiety and news of cataclysms and possible apocalypses, are closer to us than ever.
An autobiographical novella written in 1940 (later revised), set in the early 1930s in the Parisian suburb of Clichy. The work is a nostalgic, sensual, and vivid depiction of the bohemian life of a poor American immigrant in Paris.
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.