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Young Edek lives with his elderly father who tries to keep his son by his side. The boy's longing for freedom and a girl clashes with his father's possessiveness. The pigeons symbolize unattainable freedom. The conflict leads to a tragic ending.
A fascinating autobiographical collage book by Witold Gombrowicz. Through excerpts from diaries, letters, and interviews, the work provides an intimate and unsparing insight into the writer's life, thought, art, and eternal struggle with form.
Through the fate of the ambitious Zenon Ziembiewicz, the novel Granica depicts the transgression of moral, social and human boundaries – careerism, class differences and the price of compromise in interwar Polish society.
The novel Quo Vadis depicts the love between the Roman patrician Marcus Vinicius and the Christian Lygia during the reign of Emperor Nero, and the conflict between the cruelty of the Roman Empire and Christian values.
The novel The Dreamer by Polish Nobel laureate Władysław Stanisław Reymont, published in Croatian in 1944, is an introspective and philosophically tinged work that differs from his more famous realistic novels such as The Peasant.
By Fire and Sword (1884) is an epic historical novel about the Khmelnytsky Uprising (1648–1651). It follows the adventures of the knight Jan Skrzetuski, his love for Helena, and the bloody conflicts between Poles, Cossacks, and Tatars on the Ukrainian ste