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TOO SOON: Marek Krajewski’s Death in Breslau

by Christian Dumais on Oct.02, 2008, under Too Soon

Death in Breslau

And I’m back.

I know I mentioned in my last piece about my difficulty in discovering good Polish literature. This isn’t to say that it’s all terrible, but it’s hard to find a Polish work that isn’t handicapped by poor translation, such as Janusz L. Wisniewski’s frustrating Loneliness on the Net (a translation so horrible and littered with numerous grammatical errors that it ended up being the first book in years I didn’t finish), or locked in its own cultural experience to the point of alienating non-Polish readers, such as 9 by Andrzej Stasiuk (still an excellent work of fiction). This is why I’m thrilled when I stumble on to a Polish author that bypasses the aforementioned hurdles, such as Olga Tokarczuk’s House of Day, House of Night, and then I’m practically ecstatic when the book knocks me out; which happily brings me to Marek Krajewski’s phenomenal Death in Breslau. (continue reading…)

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