DYGAT Stanislaw
FAREWELLS
Krakow, 1948r, "Czytelnik", pp. 197, [4]; format 16x22 cm
First edition!
The action of the book takes place several days before the outbreak of war - ends on 31.08.1939, and then in the last days of the war - in February 1945. - after the demolition of Warsaw, but before the entry of Polish and Soviet troops. We meet the protagonist-narrator, a boy of 22, a future, or rather, would-be student. Together with him we wander through the streets of Warsaw, where one already senses the war to come, but people are still having fun, drinking, making love, traveling.... It's even more casual in Paris, where in the last days before the war our hero goes to celebrate the last days of peace with people he met by chance.
"About this novel, the second after "Lake Constance", it was written that it is a farewell to the pre-war reality. They even accused Stanislaw Dygat in 1948, when it appeared, of condemning bourgeois capitalism too weakly. Meanwhile, it is very intimate and Gombrowicz-like in spirit. And although conventions and misalliances are no longer part of our world, the sense of being trapped in roles and masks today can be just as poignant." Justyna Sobolewska, "Masks of Lovers," book review: Stanisław Dygat, "Farewells" published in Polityka.
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BDB-/ BAD condition Piece.
