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Available for the first time in English, Zofia Nalkowska's Boundary
was originally published as Granica in Poland in 1935. The
modernist novel was widely discussed upon its publication and
praised for its psychological realism and stylistic and
compositional artistry. Over the years, it has been translated into
several languages and made into a feature film, and remains a
standard text in the Polish secondary school curriculum. Nalkowska
was a pioneer of feminist fiction in Central Europe. Her
observation of inequality in the treatment of men and women is at
the heart of Boundary, which explores a transgressive love affair
and its repercussions. She perceived that men-especially of the
upper and middle classes-felt free to have sexual relations with
lower class women, whereas it was not socially acceptable for women
of any class to have sexual relations outside of marriage, or even
admit to enjoying sex. This meant that working class women were
seduced and then abandoned when they became pregnant, leaving them
with the stigma of illegitimate children and the problem of finding
work. Meanwhile, the higher class wives found themselves betrayed.
While Boundary can be interpreted as a novel about power and its
abuses, it contains several dimensions-philosophical, emotional,
existential, moral-that render it a consummate piece of social
criticism. An elegantly composed work of imaginative fiction, it
does not preach or offer solutions. Ursula Phillips's excellent
translation will interest readers of early twentieth century novels
and scholars and students of Polish literature, feminist studies,
and European modernism.
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