The Second World War. Poland. Our narrator has no intention of
being a hero. He plans to survive this war, whatever it takes.
Meticulously he recounts his experiences: the slow unravelling of
national events as well as uncomfortable personal encounters on the
street, in the cafe, at the office, in his love affairs. He is
intimate but reserved; conversational but careful; reflective but
determined. As he becomes increasingly and chillingly alienated
from other people, the reader is drawn into complicit acquiescence.
We are forced to consider what it means to be heroic and how we
ourselves would behave in the same circumstances. Written in 1961,
this is the masterpiece of one of the great Polish writers of the
twentieth century.
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