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Life and Especially Death of Angelique de Sance

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Life... is a complex, crazy road novel with several plots told in dozens of chapters. The narrative is packed with humour and moves along at the pace of a Kusturica fi lm, as Podsiadło pays tribute to writers like Richard Brautigan, Bohumil Hrabal and Egon Bondy. In a series of immediate, simple episodes laced with absurdity and moving the reader to tears of laughter with his clever wit, Podsiadło writes about things that matter and brings up some essential issues in an offbeat way. He plays with minor scenes from life as witnessed in small towns on the Baltic and on mountain trails, presenting sketches of people, conversations overheard, gestures observed, and winding his own recollections into the narrative. He pokes fun at stuffy officialdom and intellectual limitation, while also showing the beauty and authenticity of the provincial, peripheral and marginal world.

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Wojciech Tochman
Like Eating a Stone

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A book devoted to post-Yugoslavia and the shameful legacy of the 1992–1995 civil war. An unprecedented collection of terrifying and painful experiences of the Muslim population. A nightmarish tale. We feel that we need to wake up and flee from it, yet at the same time we are overwhelmed by a sense of imprisonment and paralysis. Through a technique of “minimal reportage” the author achieves a unique feel of interiority. His narration, which might be placed without hesitation in the tradition of Ryszard Kapuścinski and Hanna Krall, is defined by maximum withdrawal of the authorial voice, suspension of judgment, and total concentration on the protagonists.
The stories include that of a mother looking for the bodies of her children, a wife who does not know where or how her husband was killed, and a woman who, as a victim of ethnic rape, feels dead. All of these stories are told around the year 2000, but the present is empty: it is a time filled with an arid waiting for nothing, since nothing is capable of rebuilding life. The destruction of reality began in 1992 and ended in 1995, and the source of the destruction was ethnic hatred.

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Józef Czapski
Looking

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A collection of essays of well-deserved fame. Full of passion and ardour, they deal mainly with painting (among others the work of Cézanne, Soutine, Bonnard, Picasso and Polish colourists), but the volume also contains excellent texts on Stanisław Brzozowski and Marcel Proust, writers who were particularly consequential for Czapski’s spiritual development. Because of the distinct personal touch Looking can be read not only as a fascinating introduction to the world of art, but also an autobiography of sorts.

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