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People always think they know who the sponsor is: a calculating, not-so-bad-looking woman who married for money.
What it's like to grow up in a family where roles are mixed up, can be told by teenager Viktorija, who sometimes acts as a mom to her mother. How is that possible?
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.
It is about the world of our Slavonian wastelands, a microspace in which all 60 stories take place. Numerous characters are woven into these stories with their own destinies.
Uncle Goriot is one of the most famous and important novels by Honoré de Balzac, published in 1835. It is part of his vast cycle The Human Comedy (La Comédie humaine), and is considered perhaps the most successful work in that cycle.
Jaromil, a young poet raised by a possessive mother, seeks a "real life" in poetry and revolution. His lyrical youth, love, and idealism lead him into conformity and betrayal of intimate relationships – he dies young and unfulfilled.