A comic allegory about the impossibility of attaining complete
freedom arises gracefully from the agreeable muddle of this 1995
novel-by a popular Polish writer who has a bit of the early Milan
Kundera in him. It's the story of married veterinarian Pawel
Kohoutek's frantic farcical efforts to conceal the presence of his
importunate mistress, a freethinking intellectual whom he stows
away in his family's slaughterhouse. Kohoutek is a beguiling
monster of appetite and duplicity, and Pilch builds infectious fun
from flashbacks detailing the making of this posturing Don Juan,
casual chats with the reader, and some wonderfully rude invective
("You brute !. . . . You explorer of cows' asses !"). Sheer
entertainment. (Kirkus Reviews)
The comic misadventures of a philanderer and the angry lover in his
attic; Dr. Pawel Kohoutek, veterinarian and womanizer, looks out
the window one morning to see his mistress approaching his house.
That's bad. She is hauling her suitcase (containing her books) and
her backpack (containing everything else she owns). That's worse.
So Kohoutek does the only thing he can: He hides his current woman
in the attic of the family slaughterhouse. Farce ensues as Kohoutek
attempts to hide the woman from his eccentric family, the family's
lodgers, and various offbeat visitors. The woman, expecting love
and children and a future, does not make things easy. As he
frantically runs around trying to keep her a secret, Kohoutek's
memories - mostly involuntary and (in true postmodern fashion) of
questionable accuracy - reveal in hilarious detail the life and
crises of a hapless libertine and the forces that created him. A
bestseller in the author's native Poland, His Current Woman is a
delightful comedy of manners and of what often passes for love.
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