Social literature

1914

The novel 1914 by Ante Neimarević is the first part of a satirical trilogy about World War I, published in 1937. The work is strongly autobiographical, as the author personally participated in the war as a member of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian infantry regi

42 paralela

The first part of the epic trilogy U.S.A. John Dos Passos. A mosaic of the fate of ordinary Americans in the period from 1900 to the First World War – ambition, struggle for survival, social unrest and the birth of modern America.

Argonauti: pričanja siromašnih ljudi

The book shows the life of two poor friends, unemployed clerks Dominik Vrabec and Martin Mak, who wander in search of work and bread in the difficult interwar years, carrying the burden of misery, longing and a little man.

Atmosfere ljubavi

The novel subtly and psychologically depicts three love stories/"atmospheres" through the relationship between a man and a woman, analyzing different forms of love, marital crises, jealousy, boredom and the impossibility of complete understanding between

Automat

A collection of 41 short stories: the characters act like "automatons" – mechanical, listless, incapable of authentic reaction to life's problems. Modern man alienated, trapped in routine, sex, money and passivity, without will or feelings.

Baselska zvona

The novel follows three women: Diane, a noblewoman; Catherine Simonidzé, a feminist; and the real Clara Zetkin, a communist. Through their destinies, the crisis of bourgeois society, women's emancipation, and the path to communism are depicted.

Bebit

Babbitt (1922) is a satirical novel by Sinclair Lewis that depicts the life of George F. Babbitt, a typical American citizen – a successful real estate agent living in the conformity, materialism, and false morality of provincial American society.

Betonski vrt

Bijelo prijestolje

A novel set in contemporary life in which the author follows the fates of members of the rural intelligentsia, their ideals, moral dilemmas, and everyday struggles in Croatian society between the two wars.

Blato

Miana Vlaović's debut novel is a story about three generations of women in a patriarchal province, filled with recurring patterns of fate - love, betrayal, poverty, violence, and small struggles for dignity.