PARNICKI Theodore - OPOWIEŚĆ O TRZECH METYSACH Volume I-II

PARNICKI Theodore - OPOWIEŚĆ O TRZECH METYSACH Volume I-II

Volume I - Rather them, however; pages 494

Volume II - Rather I; pages 340

Oficyna Literacka Noir sur Blanc, Warsaw 1994.Wym.24x15cm. Artisanal bookbinding with gluing on the face of the original cover of the booklet (on the back cover of vol.1 dirt-remains of glued cover). Good condition overall.

(...)The action of "The Tale of the Three Metis" takes place on three planes. Volume one, "Rather they, however," and volume two, "Rather I," consist of monstrous dialogues, going on between Parnicki - the author, and the title Mestizos, who came to the author's apartment, in Mexico, from the sixteenth century. The Mestizos are: Martin Cortez, the first-born son of the conqueror of Mexico; Arrutia, the jester of King Philip of Spain Habsburg; and Christopher Wijjafana, a fictional character, historically only possible, who first appears in "A New Tale." So there is August 1954; there is sixteenth-century Mexico, and the circumstances of the birth and history of the conspiracy to liberate the country from Spanish rule; and finally there is the real time of the work's creation (1982, turn 85/86). The first volume is devoted "rather to them", the Métis, here we follow the fate of the conspiracy, and in this issue the historical layer of the novel is exhausted. The second volume is already the story of Parnicki's life and the problems of the creative process. To live is to write; to write is to live, the author seems to be telling us.(...)