Social literature

Giga Barićeva 1-3

Giga Barićeva (1940) follows the life of Zagreb's bourgeois society during and after World War I. Begović's style, imbued with impressionism and wit, creates a panorama of society, while Giga personifies the struggle between freedom and expectations.

Godan

Gola maja

The famous painter Mariano Renovales, the son of a blacksmith, rises to fame in Rome, Paris and Madrid. Obsessed with his love for women and art, he paints his "Naked Maya", which leads to drama, jealousy and conflict.

Goli kruh

Mohamed Choukri's novel Bare Bread is a powerful autobiographical story about poverty, hunger and the struggle for dignity in Morocco in the mid-20th century.

Golubovi i jastrebovi

In a typically Sardinian setting, through a dramatic love story, Deledda depicts the conflict between two families and their worlds – the peaceful, honest "doves" and the aggressive, greedy "hawks".

Graditelji života

A collection of revolutionary and socially engaged poetry by Marin Franičević. The poems celebrate the partisan struggle, the building of socialism, work, the collective, and the future, filled with optimism and faith in the "builders of a new life."

Gradska četvrt

In Florence, 1932–1939, in the poor neighborhood of Santa Croce, a group of young men go through first loves, fights, friendships, and maturation. Fascism is spreading, but they experience moments of joy and longing in street life, forming an awareness of

Granica

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.

Grešnik Lenart

"Sinner Lenart" is a novella by Slovenian writer Ivan Cankar that deals with themes of redemption, moral dilemmas, and the inner struggle of the individual.

Hajduk Nikola Šuhaj

Hajduk Nikola Šuhaj (1933) is the most famous novel by Ivan Olbracht (real name Kamil Zeman, 1882–1952), a classic of 20th-century Czech literature. One of the most important works of Czech literature between the two wars.