Fiction. Translated from the Polish by Soren Gauger and Marcin
Piekoszewski. Born in 1924 in Warsaw, Jerzy Ficowski is primarily
known for his work on Bruno Schulz (Regions of the Great Heresy)
and his poetry. Not having belonged to any literary school or
circle, he occupies a peculiar place in Polish literature, and in
these short stories and sketches he takes Schulz1s mythologization
of reality, whereby fiction is a way of turning the quotidian into
the fantastical and eternal, and reinterprets it to address the
sense of loss and bleak landscape of postwar Poland. Effortlessly
weaving memory, religious ritual, daily life, and the magical,
Ficowski hints at a sinister presence lurking behind these
dreamlike tales--a trace of ruin or disintegration always present
as the narrator repeatedly struggles to link some aspect of a past
that has been annihilated with a present that is foreign and
hostile.
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