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In the novel Kućni ljudi (People of the House) by Almin Kaplan, the intimate stories of a Herzegovinian family depict everyday life, quiet anxiety, and changes in village life - a meeting of tradition, nostalgia, and contemporary stratification.
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.
The novel One Hundred Years by Dario Harjaček provides a panoramic view of Trešnjevka and its inhabitants through a century of changes, ideologies, and human destinies – a mosaic of Zagreb in which life, art, and history intertwine.
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.
Uncle Goriot is one of the most famous and important novels by Honoré de Balzac, published in 1835. It is part of his vast cycle The Human Comedy (La Comédie humaine), and is considered perhaps the most successful work in that cycle.
Venedikt Yerofeyev's postmodern prose poem is today considered a classic of new Russian literature. It is compared to Gogol and Kharms for its poetics of absurdity, satire, and metaphysical depth.