Author : Michał Choromański
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Jealousy and Medicine by : Michał Choromański
Download or read book Jealousy and Medicine written by Michał Choromański and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is autumn in Poland, but an unnatural autumn. Upon the city pours a strange storm, hot winds raising the dust, clouds blackening the sky. Through feverish days three persons - a husband, a wife, and a lover - stalk one another, jealously scorching them like the wind. Where is the betrayal happening? Can the informer be believed? They pursue a maddening dance as the storm rises, and their horror, as they know well, will be allayed only by the greater horror of the truth. Widmar, the aging husband; his wife Rebecca, with her enigmatic, byzantine beauty; and the surgeon, Dr. Tamten: these three enact a hallucinated triangle. It is, as Widmar remarks, a question of ethics, the medical variety versus those of ordinary men. In certain circumstances the doctor is permitted to deceive his patient, but how far may the deceit be driven? Under the operating room's white lights the conflict reaches its climax. Jealousy and Medicine is recognized as the finest novel by one of Poland's outstanding modern writers. First published in 1932, it pioneered new fictional techniques, particularly in a use of distortion and fragmented time sequence which may have been inspired by modern painting."--New Directions