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Anna Burzyńska
Michał Paweł Markowski
20th Century Literary Theories: A Handbook

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Burzyńska and Markowski, within one volume, manage to discuss all the most important literary theories of the last century, from psychoanalysis to post-colonialism. The authors make sure that the richness of content and competent analysis go hand in hand with clarity and transparency of interepretation. Each one of the literary theory movement gets its own chapter supplemented by things such as: explanations of key terms, a chronology, and a generous bibliography. The books chief strength is its image-filled language, which makes the book a great read. The book also contains a fold-out map of literary theory. These great features give the book a wider audience than merely future literature scholars—it is also recommended for all those studying the humanities. This is a truly unique, can't miss, effort. This absolute novelty on the Polish book market is also and event in worldwide publishing.

This book is complemented by a separate volume, a collection of texts, 20^th Century Literary Theories: An Anthology, edited by Anna Burzyńska and Michał Paweł Markowski.

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Ryszard Kapuściński
A Reporter: Self-portrait

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This book was born out of the editor’s keen interest in Ryszard Kapuściński’s writing and a desire to acquaint his readers with a considerable number of interviews published in both Polish and foreign press, which reveal more than his books do. Most importantly, what kind of person is Kapuściński? And how did he happen to turn his profession into a mission and a true passion.

Ryszard Kapuściński presented Krystyna Strączek with over 1100 pages of text encompassing over a hundred interviews with Polish and foreign journalists. As she read through it, she realised that it was a priceless gem, since it included not only Kapuściński’s views upon the work of a correspondent, but also an extraordinary tale about himself, his passion for travelling, his unique method of writing, the necessity to risk one’s life for a good purpose. The interviews contain Kapuściński’s account of the loneliness and fear experienced by foreign correspondents, his views on the hardships of writing and the burden of fame. Out of all the material emerged a book of quotes divided into five chapters devoted, among others, to Kapuściński’s travels, his writing process and the idiosyncrasies of contemporary media. Highly readable as a concise autobiography and a kind of guide for aspiring journalists, it may serve either as an introduction to Kapuściński’s writing or a most valuable new perspective on his work.

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Wiesław Myśliwski
A Treatise on Bean-Shelling

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A novel of such artistic and philosophical calibre can only be the work of an “old master,” a man burdened with memories of painful historical events, with a wealth of experience and wisdom, but also an unerring writer’s instinct allowing him to transform the things he heard and reflected on and lived through into what is unquestionably a literary masterpiece.

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Fr Piotr Dzedzej
Abandoned Cassocks

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Fr. Piotr Dzedzej's book is a remarkable collection of conversations with Catholic clerics who decided to leave the chaplaincy. Among the heros of this „list of abandoned cassocks” you will find: a priest who took on holy orders because he didn't want to disappoint his mother, a former vicar who used to travel with one of his parish priests to a neighboring parish in order to seduce girls, an ex-priest who is dying from AIDS and who was never able to deal with his homosexuality, or finally, a son of a priest whose mother raised him up to be a cleric.

Dzedzej shows that the departures weren't only caused by spectacular scandals such as romances, unwanted pregnancies, or even financial swindles. He does not forget about the idealists who left the Church because they disagreed with the lies and hypocrisy reigning within it. The book paints a worrying picture of the loneliness and helplessness of people in cassocks who cannot find support within the institution to which they devoted their lives.

Abandoned Cassocks is a set of stories that shakes us out of our comfort zone and it often shocks, not only because of the reasons behind the departures, but also because of the further travails of the „formers,” who are abandoned by both the Church as well as close ones—as a result many of these former chaplains become either homeless or alcoholics. Dzedzej's conversations are also a worrying catalogue of the experience of faith which the former priests—despite their dramatic decisions—often do not lose. These moving interviews are a collection of life-stories which reflect the biggest problems facing the modern Catholic Church.

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Zbigniew Mentzel
All the Languages of the World

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Zbigniew Hintz, narrator and protagonist, strives in vain to meet the expectations of his mother, an unfulfilled pianist and poetess. The novel portrays his grotesque trials throughout the 1950s and 1960s to attain the great artistic career which he was destined to pursue “all over Poland first and then all over the world” but which remains but a dream. The events of the novel take place within a single day ten years after the fall of Communism in Poland...

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