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A 1979 novel by Italian writer Italo Calvino. The postmodernist narrative, in the form of a frame story, tells the story of a reader trying to read the book If One Winter's Night a Traveler. Each chapter is divided into two parts.
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.
Summarizing numerous sources with a strong authorial gesture, while retaining their own characteristics, Lovrenović composed a book documenting (a 'forbidden') history, not suspecting that he was writing an epitaph!
He was too embarrassed to even think about the shame he would experience if he were caught voyeurizing. Voyeurs usually watch women undress... What he felt, what tormented him, was like a terrible thirst that he had to quench.
The Buddenbrooks is not just a family chronicle – it is a profound, melancholic fresco of how time and change inexorably creep into the core of a respectable bourgeois family, bringing with them a downfall that is both tragic and inevitable.
An intimate, autobiographical drama about fatherhood, guilt, and complex family relationships. The main character is Daniel, a middle-aged widower who is raising three children alone: twins (an older son and a daughter) and the youngest son Bruno.