The Memoir of an Anti-Hero
$28.02
- Paperback
80 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2020
Summary
A powerful and disturbing Polish wartime novella, in an award-winning translation
The Second World War. Poland. Our narrator has no intention of being a hero. He plans to survive this war, whatever it takes.
Meticulously he recounts his experiences: the slow unravelling of national events as well as uncomfortable personal encounters on the street, in the cafe, at the office, in his love affairs. He is intimate but reserved; conversational but careful; reflective but determined…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241351604 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 024135160X |
| Author: | Kornel Filipowicz |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2020 |
| Weight: | 68g |
| Dimensions: | 6mm x 129mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
provocative, troubling, awkward … a proper classic– The Sunday Times
provocative, troubling, awkward … a proper classic * The Sunday Times *
Kornel Filipowicz
Kornel Filipowicz (1913-1990) was a Polish novelist, poet and screenwriter. He studied biology in Krakow and lived in that city for most of his life. His first book of poetry, an edition of ten copies, came out in 1943, and established him as a leading figure in the Polish avant-garde. During the war he was arrested and imprisoned in the Gross-Rosen and Sachsenhausen concentration camps. In later years he became a close friend of the poet and Nobel Laureate Wislawa Szymborska, with whom he exchanged thousands of letters. The first of these he sent in April 1966, enclosing photographs of monkeys from Krakow Zoo.
Anna Zaranko is a translator from the Polish, Russian and French. She lives in Jesmond Vale.
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