Milo Urban

Slovak novelist and journalist, best known as the author of the novel "Živý bič" (The Living Whip).

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  1. 1. Živý Bič

    A stark, socially acute portrait of life in a provincial Slovak community, tracing how economic hardship, petty ambition, fear and hypocrisy shape and eventually corrode the lives of ordinary people; through interwoven personal stories and sharp observational detail the novel exposes moral compromises, social tensions and the destructive consequences of cowardice, greed and conformity, offering a critique of both individuals and the institutions that sustain their suffering.