Social literature

Rimljanka

Adriana, a beautiful Roman girl from a poor background, wants a normal life, but her mother pushes her into posing for painters and prostitution. Her love affairs lead her through betrayal, violence and corruption to her final resignation.

Rimljanka

Adriana, a beautiful Roman girl from a poor background, wants a normal life, but her mother pushes her into posing for painters and prostitution. Her love affairs lead her through betrayal, violence and corruption to her final resignation.

Rimske priče: izbor

Collections of short stories from Roman life in the post-war era: ordinary people from the people and the petty bourgeoisie – the poor, workers, small craftsmen – face misery, survival, jealousy, petty deceit and moral compromises in everyday life.

Robijaši, kolonisti i kanaci

Convicts, Colonists and Kanaks is a powerful story about life in a French penal colony, which explores justice, freedom and colonial exploitation through the fates of convicts, colonists and Kanaks, while criticizing the dehumanizing system.

Sadioci luka

"Sadioci luka" is a novel by Slovenian writer Anton Ingolič, published in 1974. The work thematizes agrarian reform and collectivization in rural areas, showing the challenges faced by peasants during this process.

Samaritanac

In The Samaritan, Richard Price dissects the limits of kindness in a poor urban ghetto. The novel, a blend of crime fiction and social drama, takes place in the fictional town of Dempsey, New Jersey, where misery, addiction, and false redemptions collide.

Sedam zvonara majke Marije i druge pripovijetke

Seljaci

A masterpiece of Polish literature that earned the author the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1924. The work is structured in four parts, each named after a season, emphasizing the cyclical connection of human life with nature.

Seljaci III: Proljeće

The third part of the epic tetralogy The Peasants. Spring brings the awakening of nature, but also new conflicts in the village of Lipce: the culmination of a love triangle, family drama and social tensions. The continuation of Nobel's epic of Polish peas

Seljaci II: Zima

The second part of the epic tetralogy Peasants. The novel depicts the difficult winter life in the village of Lipce, deepens the conflicts within Boryna's family, the passionate relationship between Antko and Jagna, and the growing tensions in the village