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For One Moment Of Joy: English Edition
Paperback
Series: 19th Century Croatian Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 4 2026
Pages: 158
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A young count's unsettling encounter with a mysterious girl sets one story in motion; a marriage shadowed by illness and devotion unfolds in another. As these two narratives-Count Leoni and Blancha, Vladimir and Sofija-begin to mirror and distort one another, the boundaries between passion and illusion, duty and desire, grow increasingly uncertain.
What begins as curiosity deepens into a relationship charged with volatility and misrecognition, while elsewhere a husband, sensing his decline, confronts the cost of love and the limits of sacrifice. The two strands advance in counterpoint, each casting a shifting light on the other, until they converge in a conclusion that is as haunting as it is unresolved.
First published in 1879, this work by Rikard Jorgovanic explores the unknowability of the human heart and the fragile line between tenderness and ruin. Its doubled structure invites the reader to weigh two kinds of attachment-and to ask what, if anything, can be truly known of another.
This English edition is based on the original periodical publication and presents a faithful, idiomatic translation for modern readers, accompanied by concise endnotes that illuminate historical context, cultural references, and language.
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