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This edition brings four key stories by Vjenceslav Novak (1859–1905), one of the most important Croatian realists, known for his social sensitivity and depictions of urban poverty at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate that leads a person to a new way of thinking or being: the stories in Dear Life build to form a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life can be.
"Stories from the Past" (1916) contains the stories: Sunce Djever and Neva Nevičica, Bratac Jaglenac and little sister Rutvica, Šuma Striborova, How Potjeh searched for the truth, Fisherman Polunko and his wife, Lutonjica Toporko and nine župančići, Jagor
The book is not a novel, but a collection that mixes short stories, drama, and essay fragments, with a focus on death, power, and existential dilemmas.
Today, some fifty years after the first printing, A Tomb for Boris Davidovich is considered one of the best prose books published in the former Yugoslavia, and it has become part of the world literary canon.
The story of Gogol is a story of tragic talent, mysticism and madness, of a manuscript that burned, of a nose and an overcoat, of an auditor and dead souls.