Warsaw Tales

This anthology of twelve short stories form a chronological account of the dramatic history of twentieth century Warsaw.

List of contents

• 1: Boleslaw Prus: Apparitions


• 2: Maria Kuncewiczowa: Zoo


• 3: Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz: Icarus


• 4: Ludwik Hering: Traces


• 5: Zofia Petersowa: The Funeral


• 6: Marek Hlasko: First Step in the Clouds


• 7: Kazimierz Orlos: The Palace of Culture


• 8: Hanna Krall: The Presence


• 9: Antoni Libera: The View from Above and Below


• 10: Zbigniew Mentzel: The Warsaw Map


• 11: Olga Tokarczuk: Che Guevara


• 12: Krzysztof Varga: Return of the Evil One

About the author

Antonia Lloyd-Jones graduated from Oxford University in 1983 with a degree in Russian and Ancient Greek, and has been teaching herself Polish ever since. She has translated works by many of Poland's leading contemporary novelists and reportage authors, as well as crime fiction, poetry and children's books. Her translation of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by 2018 Nobel Prize laureate Olga Tokarczuk was shortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize. She is a mentor for the Emerging Translators' Mentorship Programme, and former co-chair of the UK Translators Association.

Product details

• Authors: Helen Constantine, Antonia Lloyd-Jones
• Assisted by: Helen Constantine (Editor), Constantine Helen (Editor), Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translation), Ms Antonia (Literary Translator Lloyd-Jones (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.12.2024
• EAN: 9780192855565
• ISBN: 978-0-19-285556-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: City Tales
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Short Stories, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Fiction in translation, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Literary essays