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Atmosfere ljubavi
The novel subtly and psychologically depicts three love stories/"atmospheres" through the relationship between a man and a woman, analyzing different forms of love, marital crises, jealousy, boredom and the impossibility of complete understanding between
Čovjek došao u grad: Roman jednog proletariziranog seljaka
A poor peasant comes to the city seeking a better life, but faces exploitation and social injustice. The work depicts the process of proletarianization of the peasantry during the period of social change in the first half of the 20th century.
Dobra zemlja
Pearl S. Buck depicts the life of Chinese peasant Wang Lung, his rise from poverty to wealth, and the disintegration of family ties. The novel explores the relationship between man and land, tradition, social change, and moral challenges.
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.
Krvava arena: roman iz života španjolskih torera
The Bloody Arena (1908) is a naturalistic novel about the rise and fall of bullfighter Juan Gallardo. A poor young man becomes a famous matador, but is destroyed by love, vice, fear, and tragedies in the arena – a critique of Spanish bullfighting and soci
Martin Kačur
The novel depicts the tragic fate of the idealistic teacher Martin Kačur, who fights against provincial backwardness, corruption, national indifference, and his own powerlessness in a small Slovenian town.
Nova skrižaljka
The New Crossword is a valuable testimony to Russian society in the turbulent post-revolutionary period – honest, sometimes critical, but always interesting and readable. Today it is appreciated as a fine example of Russian prose of the 1920s.
Obećana zemlja 1-2
The novel The Promised Land, published in 1899, is one of the most significant works by Polish Nobel Prize winner Władysław Reymont. Set in the industrial city of Łódź at the end of the 19th century, the novel depicts rapid industrialization and its conse
Otpadnik
The novel The Apostate by Russian author Vladimir Lidin, published in 1934 in Zagreb in the translation by Iso Velikanović, presents a powerful psychological and moral drama set in the student milieu of Soviet Russia.
Pokojni Matija Pascal
Luigi Pirandello's novel The Late Matthias Pascal (1904), a masterpiece of Italian literature, explores themes of identity, freedom, and social conventions through a tragic yet ironic story of a man trying to escape his life.