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New Perspectives in Twentieth-Century Polish Literature

Flight from Martyrology

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  • © 1992

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Editors:
  1. Stanislaw Eile

    1. School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, UK

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  2. Ursula Phillips

    1. Ukraine and Poland in the Library of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, UK

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Part of the book series: Studies in Russia and East Europe (SREE)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Stanislaw Eile
    Pages 1-5

  3. A Poetical Political History

    • Adam Czerniawski
    Pages 6-27

  4. Gombrowicz’s Polish Complex

    • Ursula Phillips
    Pages 28-46

  5. State of Arrest: The Short Stories of Bruno Schulz

    • George Hyde
    Pages 47-67

  6. The Prison of Self: Moral Dilemmas in Jerzy Andrzejewski’s Fiction

    • Stanislaw Eile
    Pages 68-86

  7. The Document: Polarities of its Employment by Białoszewski and Mackiewicz

    • Jerzy JarzÄ™bski
    Pages 87-104

  8. Zbigniew Herbert and the Notion of Virtue

    • Stanislaw BaraÅ„czak
    Pages 105-118

  9. The Telescopic World of Jeu de Miroirs (Re-reading the Works of Sławomir Mrożek)

    • Hélène WÅ‚odarczyk
    Pages 119-142

  10. Myśliwski’s The Palace: A Translator’s Introduction

    • Ursula Phillips
    Pages 143-153

  11. Tadeusz Konwicki: A Personal View

    • George Hyde
    Pages 154-163

  12. At the End of the Century

    • Alexander Fiut
    Pages 164-179

  13. Between Absurdity and Apocalypse: Contemporary Poland in Drama and Fiction, 1977–87

    • Stanislaw Eile
    Pages 180-200

  14. Internal Exile in a Free Society? New Poetry in Poland in the 1980s and Early 1990s

    • Donald P. A. Pirie
    Pages 201-229

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 230-233
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Serves as an introduction to contemporary Polish literature, developed through critical discussion of key problems and representative writers. It includes poetry, fiction and drama. Some essays are devoted to individual writers including, Milosz, Herbert, Gombrowicz, Schulz, Konwicki and Mrozek.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, UK

    Stanislaw Eile

  • Ukraine and Poland in the Library of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, UK

    Ursula Phillips

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