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The Polish Complex

Author : Tadeusz Konwicki
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN 13 : 9781564782014
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book The Polish Complex written by Tadeusz Konwicki and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Polish Complex takes place on Christmas Eve, from early morning until late in the evening, as a line of people (including the narrator, whose name is Konwicki) stand and wait in front of a jewelry store in Warsaw. Through the narrator we are told of what happens among those standing in line outside this store, what happens as the narrator's mind thinks and rants about the current state of Poland, and what happens as he imagines the failed Polish rebellion of 1863. The novel's form allows Konwicki (both character and author) to roam around and through Poland's past and present, and to range freely through whatever comes to his attention. By turns comic, lyrical, despairing, and liberating, The Polish Complex stands as one of the most important novels to have come out of Poland since World War II.

A Minor Apocalypse

Author : Tadeusz Konwicki
Publisher : Commonwealth Secretariat
ISBN 13 : 9781564782175
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book A Minor Apocalypse written by Tadeusz Konwicki and published by Commonwealth Secretariat. This book was released on 1999 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel of savage satirical humour. A failed Polish author expects and looks forward to death and courts his demise ultimatedly in self-immolation.

A Dreambook for Our Time

Author : Tadeusz Konwicki
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book A Dreambook for Our Time written by Tadeusz Konwicki and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1976 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We live, as we dream--alone," Conrad revealed in "Heart of Darkness." This novel by Tadeusz Konwicki, a Pole writing in his own language, is an extension of the theme of dream and life and their interlocking realities, and man's attempt to come to meaningful and personal terms with an existential and absurd universe.The antihero (in the Camusian sense) is shown at the opening of the novel just coming out of a coma, having tried to commit suicide by poison. He is surrounded by provincial townsfolk, villagers who in their isolation and emotional impoverishment have turned their energies to creating a new religion--a private God, non-identifiable as either Christian or non-Christian.Called "one of the most terrifying novels in postwar Polish literature, ...greeted upon its appearance (in 1963) as a major literary sensation" (Czeslaw Milosz, "History of Polish Literature), " the novel moves through a series of flashbacks between present reality and recalled experiences. The language is that of a dream sequence with metaphors of nightmarish quality, both in intensity and "illogicality."The young Pole who narrates his experiences reveals himself to be caught up in a labyrinth leading nowhere, driven by an urge which ultimately is a need for punishment, and represents man's longing for a responsive and benevolent force over his destiny. Acutely feeling the lack, faced with a godless universe, he sees his choice to be between selfassertive survival at any price--moral, sensual, intellectual--or the selfpronouncement of worthlessness and the denouement of peace attained by suicide. The hero "escapes" death and is condemned to death-in-life.Konwicki's descriptions of the brutal mutual massacres of some of the war experiences of the narrator are unforgettable in their irony. The dialogue is witty and ironic, and retains the vernacular thrust of the Polish original. The author's experience as director and script writer earned him a Grand Prix (1958) at Venice for a film entitled "The Last Day of Summer." His vivid awareness of the passing values in an increasingly superficial world of interrelationships and goals makes this passionate work a powerful indictment of modern man's progress in guilt and war and his impotence in melding his idealistic dreams and his life.

The Anthropos-spectre-beast

Author : Tadeusz Konwicki
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Anthropos-spectre-beast written by Tadeusz Konwicki and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1977 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amid warnings of the earth's end Peter encounters the Anthropos-Spectre-Beast and travels with the Investigator Dog on mysterious trips into the Universe.

Pfitz

Author : Andrew Crumey
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312195502
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (955 download)

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Download or read book Pfitz written by Andrew Crumey and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-10-15 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eighteenth-century prince devotes his entire wealth and the energy of his subjects to the creation of Rreinnstadt, a fantastic city that exists only on paper and in the minds of its creators. Among Rreinnstadt's fictional inhabitants is Pfitz, a count's loyal servant who mysteriously disappears one night from a tavern. Andrew Crumey's exploration of the rich territory between reality and fantasy reveals a genuine affection for character and the terrain of the human heart.

Bliss was it in Bohemia

Author : Michal Viewegh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780993377327
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Bliss was it in Bohemia written by Michal Viewegh and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wildly comic story about the fate of a Czech family from the 1960s onward.

Love And Garbage

Author : Ivan Klima
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1407085913
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Love And Garbage written by Ivan Klima and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The narrator of Love and Garbage has temporarily abandoned his work-in-progress - an essay on Kafka - and exchanged his writer's pen for the orange vest of a Prague road-sweeper. As he works, he meditates on Czechoslovakia, on Kafka, on life, on art and, obsessively, on his passionate and adulterous love affair with the sculptress Daria. Gradually he admits the impossibility of being at once an honest writer and an honest lover, and with that agonising discovery comes a moment of choice.

The Tunnel

Author : Ernesto Sabato
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101659548
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Tunnel written by Ernesto Sabato and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the great short novels of the twentieth century—in an edition marking the 100th anniversary of the author's birth. An unforgettable psychological novel of obsessive love, The Tunnel was championed by Albert Camus, Thomas Mann, and Graham Greene upon its publication in 1948 and went on to become an international bestseller. At its center is an artist named Juan Pablo Castel, who recounts from his prison cell his murder of a woman named María Iribarne. Obsessed from the moment he sees her examining one of his paintings, Castel fantasizes for months about how they might meet again. When he happens upon her one day, a relationship develops that convinces him of their mutual love. But Castel's growing paranoia leads him to destroy the one thing he truly cares about. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Stranger in Our Midst

Author : Harold B. Segel
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501718290
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Stranger in Our Midst written by Harold B. Segel and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vibrant Jewish community flourished in Poland from late in the tenth century until it was virtually annihilated in World War II. In this remarkable anthology, the first of its kind, Harold B. Segel offers translations of poems and prose works—mainly fiction—by non-Jewish Polish writers. Taken together, the selections represent the complex perceptions about Jews in the Polish community in the period 1530-1990.

The New World Avenue and Vicinity

Author : Tadeusz Konwicki
Publisher : New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The New World Avenue and Vicinity written by Tadeusz Konwicki and published by New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 1991 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A volume of sketches and ruminations by Poland's most popular writer who is also a screenwriter and film director.

Bohin Manor

Author : Tadeusz Konwicki
Publisher : New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Bohin Manor written by Tadeusz Konwicki and published by New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. This book was released on 1990 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Utopian Visions and Revisions

Author : Artur Blaim
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN 13 : 9783631675656
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (756 download)

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Download or read book Utopian Visions and Revisions written by Artur Blaim and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book employs the concepts of utopia, dystopia, and anti-utopia in the analysis of a variety of phenomena such as literature, cinema, rock music, literary/cultural theories, as well as the practice of literature (socialist realism) and socio-political life.

Conversations with an Executioner

Author : Kazimierz Moczarski
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Conversations with an Executioner written by Kazimierz Moczarski and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1981 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Relying largely on Stroop's own words ... Moczarski recreates the chain of events which caused a nondescript German youth, the son of a provincial policeman, to rise to the top of the Nazi hierarchy; become part of the inner circle of Hitler, Himmler, and Göring; wield ... power in Czechoslovakia, Soviet Russia, and Greece; and mastermind Warsaw's "Final solution"--Jacket.

Home Reading Service

Author : Fabio Morábito
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1635420725
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book Home Reading Service written by Fabio Morábito and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this poignant novel, a man guilty of a minor offense finds purpose unexpectedly by way of his punishment—reading to others. After an accident—or “the misfortune,” as his cancer-ridden father’s caretaker, Celeste, calls it—Eduardo is sentenced to a year of community service reading to the elderly and disabled. Stripped of his driver’s license and feeling impotent as he nears thirty-five, he leads a dull, lonely life, chatting occasionally with the waitresses of a local restaurant or walking the streets of Cuernavaca. Once a quiet town known for its lush gardens and swimming pools, the “City of Eternal Spring” is now plagued by robberies, kidnappings, and the other myriad forms of violence bred by drug trafficking. At first, Eduardo seems unable to connect. He movingly reads the words of Dostoyevsky, Henry James, Daphne du Maurier, and more, but doesn’t truly understand them. His eccentric listeners—including two brothers, one mute, who moves his lips while the other acts as ventriloquist; deaf parents raising children they don’t know are hearing; and a beautiful, wheelchair-bound mezzo soprano—sense his detachment. Then Eduardo comes across a poem his father had copied by the Mexican poet Isabel Fraire, and it affects him as no literature has before. Through these fascinating characters, like the practical, quick-witted Celeste, who intuitively grasps poetry even though she never learned to read, Fabio Morábito shows how art can help us rediscover meaning in a corrupt, unequal society.

My Grandmother's Braid

Author : Alina Bronsky
Publisher : Europa Editions
ISBN 13 : 1609456467
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book My Grandmother's Braid written by Alina Bronsky and published by Europa Editions. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author of The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine “explores the peculiarities of familial relations to tremendous result” (Asymptote). A Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2021 Max lives with his grandparents in a residential home for refugees in Germany. When his grandmother—a terrifying, stubborn matriarch and a former Russian primadonna—moved them from the Motherland it was in search of a better life. But she is not at all pleased with how things are run in Germany: the doctors and teachers are incompetent, the food is toxic, and the Germans are generally untrustworthy. His grandmother has been telling Max that he is an inept, clueless weakling since he was a child and she’d spend the day sitting in the back of his classroom to be sure he came to no harm. While he may be a dolt in his grandmother’s eyes, Max is bright enough to notice that his stoic and taciturn grandfather has fallen hopelessly in love with their neighbor, Nina. When a child is born to Nina that is the spitting image of Max’s grandfather, things come to a hilarious if dramatic head. Everybody will have to learn to defend themselves from Max’s all-powerful grandmother. Alina Bronsky, author of The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine, writes of family dysfunction and machinations with a droll and biting humor, a tremendous ear for dialog, and a generous heart that is forgiving of human weakness. “[A] comic feel-bad novel. Bronsky has a Dickensian flair for writing about miserable children—or, rather, the miseries of childhood.” —Vulture

Minor Detail

Author : Adania Shibli
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811229084
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Minor Detail written by Adania Shibli and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A searing, beautiful novel meditating on war, violence, memory, and the sufferings of the Palestinian people Finalist for the National Book Award Longlisted for the International Booker Prize Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba—the catastrophe that led to the displacement and exile of some 700,000 people—and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers murder an encampment of Bedouin in the Negev desert, and among their victims they capture a Palestinian teenager and they rape her, kill her, and bury her in the sand. Many years later, in the near-present day, a young woman in Ramallah tries to uncover some of the details surrounding this particular rape and murder, and becomes fascinated to the point of obsession, not only because of the nature of the crime, but because it was committed exactly twenty-five years to the day before she was born. Adania Shibli masterfully overlays these two translucent narratives of exactly the same length to evoke a present forever haunted by the past.

The films of Costa-Gavras

Author : Homer B. Pettey
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526146916
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book The films of Costa-Gavras written by Homer B. Pettey and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Costa-Gavras is a seminal figure in French and international cinema. A master of the political thriller, he explores historical events through individual human stories, thereby involving his audience in past and contemporary traumas, from the horrors of the Holocaust through mid-century international state terrorism and totalitarianism to the current global financial crisis. With a career spanning half a century, he remains one of cinema’s most intriguing and enduring storytellers, theorists and political commentators. This collection of original essays charts and re-examines Costa-Gavras’s career from Un homme de trop (1967) to Le capital (2012). Readable and carefully researched, it will appeal to students and scholars of film, as well as fans of the director’s work.