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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.
Francesco Merighi returns to Rome after 9 years abroad. In order to write an "authentic" novel, he keeps a diary of his life with his wife and their daughter Babe. He obsessively analyzes lies in relationships, the temptation of
This short novel deserves to be called a classic. Its heroine, Holly Golightly, an eccentric young woman with a whimsical and unconventional demeanor, simply gets under the skin of the people around her and the readers of this novel.
The novel "The Wild Hunt" (1954) by Peter Abrahams follows a group of boys from a poor black community in South Africa who decide to undertake a dangerous venture - hunting a wild boar.
The novel itself is conceptually carried by a lucid comparison of Dalmatia and the Wild West: on a thematic level, cowboys are the mythical place of the childhood of the main character and her brother.
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.