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A political novel about the rise of an ambitious leader whose quest for power leads to intrigue, betrayal, and gradual moral collapse. A sharp, intriguing portrayal of politics as a dangerous game with no clear winners.
The Golden Calf (1931) follows the ingenious con artist Ostap Bender, who in Soviet Russia during the first five-year plan seeks a secret millionaire in order to get rich, encountering the absurdity of bureaucracy, the new Soviet man, and his own downfall
"Who's Who in Hell" (2002) is the debut novel by British journalist and author Robert Chalmers, a comic, provocative and emotional story about love, loss and the absurdities of life.
In this humorous and satirical story, Boccaccio depicts life in a monastery and ridicules the hypocrisy and weaknesses of people who should live morally and piously.
The birth, childhood, upbringing and warlike exploits of the giant Gargantua: a satire on scholasticism, wars, monasticism and society, with grotesque humour, enormous eating/drinking and utopian ideals.
Ignored and harassed by the authorities, surviving on the help of relatives and publishing children's rhymes, this ingenious marginal left behind a veritable treasure trove of strange stories and twisted thoughts in his notes and notebooks.