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Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers. His wry poems are modern, European, mischievous and frequently breathtaking.
He influenced my first novel and I returned the favour by pinching my subtitle - 'Conversation with the elements' - from a line in his wonderful poem, 'A Journey'. A classic, dark satire of communist times in which a struggling writer is asked to set fire to himself, by way of protest, in front of the hideous Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw. In an 'age of sorcerers and soothsayers dying away, all those prophets and messiahs who failed to save the world', Konwicki steps in to offer a little magic, a little poetry and a little guidance in a grim totalitarian world.
Susan Sontag described Gombrowicz as "one of the super-arguers of the 20th century" and who are we to disagree?
The undisputed master-stylist of Polish literature, Gombrowicz offers, in Pornografia, a novel of role-playing, voyeurism and one of his abiding themes the joys of prolonged immaturity. Only last year, his wickedly playful novels were removed from the school syllabus by the Polish minister of culture on the grounds that they were corrupting Polish youth. The story follows the arrest of Irma Seidenman, one of the last surviving Jewish women in Nazi-occupied Warsaw. With a fine balance between poetic tenderness and an unflinching account of the brutal realities of the day, Szczypiorski shows us the intertwining lives of the few Poles, Jews, and Germans who risk everything to save her.
Tales by Polish Authors has 34 ratings and 1 review. David said: PowerfulA powerful set of short stories. Good reading, well written, but these are not. Tales by Polish Authors [Henryk Sienkiewics, Stefan Zeromski, Adam Szymanski, Waclaw Sieroszewski, Else C.M. Benecke] on www.farmersmarketmusic.com *FREE* shipping.
Szczypiorski himself fought in the Warsaw Uprising of , then survived Sachsenhausen concentration camp. His experiences are brought to bear with both shocking and heart-warming brilliance.
A self-confessed "parasite of metaphor", Schulz treats us to a rich poetry of transformation. A magically-drawn panoply of characters range from an eccentric father in the attic, to Adele, the maid, for whom the narrator harbours a self-flagellating love. It's a painstakingly vivid evocation of life in a cluttered shop threatened by the merchants along The Street of Crocodiles.
One moment Schulz is darkly foreboding, the next he bursts into colour and flight. As he once explained, he writes of "the state of spellbound suspension within a personal solitude". And you will be spellbound, too. One of the leading lights of contemporary Polish literature, Tokarczuk was once a psychiatric nurse with a fondness for Jung.
Her writing frequently investigates the borders between waking and sleep. This wise and moving novel is set in a town lying on a geographical border and steadily reveals the secrets and dreams of its disparate inhabitants, and was the winner of the prestigious Nike prize in Poland. Also worth discovering is Farewell to Plasmas Twisted Spoon , a sharp and witty collection of vignettes by Tokarczuk's friend, Natasza Goerke.