Tworki

Informationen zum Autor MAREK BIENCZYK is the critically-acclaimed author of Terminal, a novel, and of several collections of essays and literary criticism, most recently The Eyes of Dürer: On Romantic Melancholy. A noted wine critic and expert on French culture, he is also a prolific translator of Milan Kundera and Roland Barthes, among others. He teaches in the Institute of Literary Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences and lives in Warsaw. BENJAMIN PALOFF is a poetry editor for Boston Review and Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His poems have appeared in The Antioch Review , The New Republic , The Paris Review , and elsewhere. His other translations include Dorota Maslowska's Snow White and Russian Red. Klappentext In Tworki! a village just southwest of Warsaw! there is a psychiatric hospital and in that hospital! the patients and their caretakers are hidden from the war just outside their iron gates. Our hero! Jurek! answers an ad in the paper for a job there and finds himself keeping the books alongside a knock-out strawberry blonde named Sonia. Zusammenfassung In Tworki! a village just southwest of Warsaw! there is a psychiatric hospital and in that hospital! the patients and their caretakers are hidden from the war just outside their iron gates. Our hero! Jurek! answers an ad in the paper for a job there and finds himself keeping the books alongside a knock-out strawberry blonde named Sonia.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Marek Bienczyk, Marek Wachtel Bienczyk, Marek/ Paloff Bienczyk, Andrew Wachtel, Andrew Baruch Wachtel
• Con la collaborazione di: Benjamin Paloff (Traduzione)
• Editore: Northwestern University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 28.02.2008
• EAN: 9780810124752
• ISBN: 978-0-8101-2475-2
• Pagine: 152
• Dimensioni: 140 mm x 216 mm x 19 mm
• Serie: Writings from an Unbound Europ; Writings from an Unbound Europe S.; Writings from an Unbound Europe; Writings from an Unbound Europ; Writings from an Unbound Europe
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi