New Perspectives in Twentieth-Century Polish Literature: Flight from Martyrology (Studies in Russia and East Europe)

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. Front Matter....Pages i-ix Introduction....Pages 1-5 A Poetical Political History....Pages 6-27 Gombrowicz’s Polish Complex....Pages 28-46 State of Arrest: The Short Stories of Bruno Schulz....Pages 47-67 The Prison of Self: Moral Dilemmas in Jerzy Andrzejewski’s Fiction....Pages 68-86 The Document: Polarities of its Employment by Białoszewski and Mackiewicz....Pages 87-104 Zbigniew Herbert and the Notion of Virtue....Pages 105-118 The Telescopic World of Jeu de Miroirs (Re-reading the Works of Sławomir Mrożek)....Pages 119-142 Myśliwski’s The Palace: A Translator’s Introduction....Pages 143-153 Tadeusz Konwicki: A Personal View....Pages 154-163 At the End of the Century....Pages 164-179 Between Absurdity and Apocalypse: Contemporary Poland in Drama and Fiction, 1977–87....Pages 180-200 Internal Exile in a Free Society? New Poetry in Poland in the 1980s and Early 1990s....Pages 201-229 Back Matter....Pages 230-233