Pripovijetke

Novak writes soberly, documentary-style, with deep compassion for the marginalized – workers, the poor, fallen idealists – criticizing the city's callousness, class differences and moral decline. This edition serves as a reading (7th grade or high school), with a preface, a note about the author and black and white illustrations. It presents Novak as a "Croatian Balzac" – with a wide range of social types, from villages to big cities, with an emphasis on social injustice and human suffering.

Contents:

• Into the Muck – a story about a young student Artur Kranjčić who comes to Zagreb full of idealism and freshness, but sinks into the moral and existential muck of the city, alcohol and disappointment – ​​Novak's typical motif of the decline of a noble soul in a corrupt environment.
• Insatiability and Misery – a social drama about greed, poverty and destructive insatiability that destroys families and individuals.
• From the Metropolitan Underground (1905) – the most famous, a realistic depiction of working-class life in Zagreb: poverty, drunkenness, the prejudice of the rich against the poor, the character of Mikina who suffers from social injustice and loss of dignity.
• The Story of Marcel Remenić – a story about individual destiny, probably with motifs of artistic or intellectual decline.