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  • Fu(*n*)k Bomb
    Karel Veselý Veselý / Charles S. Kraszewski
    Prague, 1989. As the Communist regime begins to tremble, a young cultural functionary named Jiří is summoned to the office of President Gustáv Husák. The solution to the growing dissident threat? Funk.Thus begins an audacious experiment: a state-sponsored funk band designed to win back the youth with irresistible rhythms and ideologically sound lyrics. What starts as a loyal mi...
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    34,10 €

  • 150 Poems from Poland
    Charles S Kraszewski
    150 Poems from Poland is a unique experience in reading. Neither editor nor translator determined the contents and shape of this anthology of contemporary Polish literature, but the poets themselves, who chose their own ’calling cards’ to present to the English reader. In this way, a poetic statement was created that, in the words of the translator, ’is about as close as one ca...
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    19,00 €

  • Battle of Monte Cassino
    Melchior Wankowicz / Charles S. Kraszewski
    This book recounts the conquest of Monte Cassino, after months of intense fighting, providing the Allies with an open road for their progress through Italy to victory over the Nazis in Europe. Wańkowicz’s account is based on what he saw himself, as well as interviews with the soldiers who took part in the battle. ...
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    191,79 €

  • Tefil
    Rafał Wojasiński / Charles S. Kraszewski
    In Rafał Wojasiński’s new engaging masterpiece Tefil, we come across a curious - and eerie - situation. A young man named Rozmaryn finds a photograph depicting his mother in the company of a stranger. He lost both his parents at an early age, and never even knew his mother. So he sets off in search of that stranger, and this leads him to one of the most articulate, yet unsettli...
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    20,31 €

  • Tefil
    Rafał Wojasiński / Charles S. Kraszewski
    In Rafał Wojasiński’s new engaging masterpiece Tefil, we come across a curious - and eerie - situation. A young man named Rozmaryn finds a photograph depicting his mother in the company of a stranger. He lost both his parents at an early age, and never even knew his mother. So he sets off in search of that stranger, and this leads him to one of the most articulate, yet unsettli...
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    25,38 €

  • Kinderszenen
    Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz / Charles S. Kraszewski
    An old man-poet, playwright, essayist, and scholar-sifts through the broken fragments of his memory as he recounts what it was like to grow up in Warsaw during the German occupation of World War II. The result is Kinderszenen, a searing and controversial memoir by a major post-war Polish writer that has evoked both debate and praise, now translated into English for the first ti...
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    16,04 €

  • On the Road to Freedom
    Janko Jesenský / Charles S. Kraszewski
    ’'Brother, you have another pair of boots,' Jaroslav Hašek said to me, grabbing me by the sleeve. 'How do you know?' 'Yesterday you were in army boots, and today you’ve got civilian ones on. I’d buy those army boots off you.' And in this way my high-laced boots, which I was given by the Austrian Red Cross way back in Beryozovka-za-Baikalom, came into Hašek’s possession. It was ...
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    28,01 €

  • Poems about my Psychiatrist
    Andrzej Kotański / Charles S. Kraszewski
    ’The world’s really not the way it is,’ says the eponymous Psychiatrist in Andrzej Kotański’s wildly popular Poems about my Psychiatrist, ’it’s not what it seems to us to be / to tell the truth / the world doesn’t actually exist.’ This is problematical, to say the least. The world doesn’t exist? Well, here I am, and here is this book, real paper, which I hold in my real hands. ...
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    21,53 €

  • The Mouseiad and other Mock Epics
    Ignacy Krasicki / Charles S. Kraszewski
    International brigades of mice and rats join forces to defend the rodents of Poland, threatened with extermination at the paws of cats favoured by the ancient ruler King Popiel, a sybaritic, cowardly ruler… The Hag of Discord incites a vicious rivalry between monastic orders, which only the good monks’ common devotion to… fortified spirits… is able to allay… The present transla...
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    27,23 €

  • Selected Works
    Jan Kochanowski / Charles S. Kraszewski
    Jan Kochanowski (1530-1584) is not only the greatest Polish poet before Adam Mickiewicz, he is also one of the great figures of the European Renaissance. Over the space of his rather brief life, he excelled in every literary genre he attempted: secular lyric poetry and religious hymns, drama, pithy satires in the vein of Martial, and translations from both the Bible and classic...
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    26,55 €

  • Selected Works
    Jan Kochanowski / Charles S. Kraszewski
    Jan Kochanowski (1530-1584) is not only the greatest Polish poet before Adam Mickiewicz, he is also one of the great figures of the European Renaissance. Over the space of his rather brief life, he excelled in every literary genre he attempted: secular lyric poetry and religious hymns, drama, pithy satires in the vein of Martial, and translations from both the Bible and classic...
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    23,67 €

  • Maybe We’re Leaving
    Jan Balaban / Charles S. Kraszewski
    A young boy from the housing estates comes across a copse of old oaks to which he can escape, as to an oasis of calm. Although he may forget about it once he becomes an adult and “puts aside the things of childhood,” it will remain a locus of balance, decades later, for a single mother struggling with the difficulties of raising the child she loves. A husband, on the lip of an ...
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    23,37 €

  • Ballads and Romances
    Adam Mickiewicz / Charles S. Kraszewski
    The year 2022 has been designated the Year of Romanticism in Poland. An even two hundred years have passed since the first publication of Adam Mickiewicz’s Ballads and Romances - a collection of lyrics which has the same significance for Polish literature as Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads has for the English. Poems of love, the supernatural, and the exotic, Mickiewi...
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    25,12 €

  • Poems about my Psychiatrist
    Andrzej Kotański / Charles S. Kraszewski
    ’The world’s really not the way it is,’ says the eponymous Psychiatrist in Andrzej Kotański’s wildly popular Poems about my Psychiatrist, ’it’s not what it seems to us to be / to tell the truth / the world doesn’t actually exist.’ This is problematical, to say the least. The world doesn’t exist? Well, here I am, and here is this book, real paper, which I hold in my real hands. ...
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    19,84 €

  • Ballads and Romances
    Adam Mickiewicz / Charles S. Kraszewski
    The year 2022 has been designated the Year of Romanticism in Poland. An even two hundred years have passed since the first publication of Adam Mickiewicz’s Ballads and Romances - a collection of lyrics which has the same significance for Polish literature as Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads has for the English. Poems of love, the supernatural, and the exotic, Mickiewi...
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    16,33 €

  • Dramatic Works
    Cyprian Kamil Norwid / Charles S. Kraszewski
    ’Perhaps some day I’ll disappear forever,’ muses the master-builder Psymmachus in Cyprian Kamil Norwid’s Cleopatra and Caesar, ’Becoming one with my work...’ Today, exactly two hundred years from the poet’s birth, it is difficult not to hear Norwid speaking through the lips of his character. The greatest poet of the second phase of Polish Romanticism, Norwid, like Gerard Manley...
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    31,11 €

  • Dramatic Works
    Cyprian Kamil Norwid / Charles S. Kraszewski
    ’Perhaps some day I’ll disappear forever,’ muses the master-builder Psymmachus in Cyprian Kamil Norwid’s Cleopatra and Caesar, ’Becoming one with my work...’ Today, exactly two hundred years from the poet’s birth, it is difficult not to hear Norwid speaking through the lips of his character. The greatest poet of the second phase of Polish Romanticism, Norwid, like Gerard Manley...
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    34,82 €

  • The Vow
    Jiří Kratochvil / Charles S. Kraszewski / Charles SKraszewski
    Can something that exists merely as a literary text, say a story, come about in real life? Can reality, to put it another way, steal something from literature, the same way literature steals from reality? Such is the question that Libor Hrach, the author of The Adventures of the Wise Badger, fields one evening over a hedonistic supper in a tony Brno restaurant from Kamil Modráč...
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    22,52 €

  • The Vow
    Jiří Kratochvil / Charles S. Kraszewski
    Can something that exists merely as a literary text, say a story, come about in real life? Can reality, to put it another way, steal something from literature, the same way literature steals from reality? Such is the question that Libor Hrach, the author of The Adventures of the Wise Badger, fields one evening over a hedonistic supper in a tony Brno restaurant from Kamil Modráč...
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    25,39 €

  • Głosy / Voices
    Jan Polkowski / Charles S. Kraszewski / Charles SKraszewski
    In December 1970, amid a harsh winter and an even harsher economic situation, the ruling communist regime in Poland chose to drastically raise prices on basic foodstuffs. Just before the Christmas holidays, for example, the price of fish, a staple of the traditional Christmas Eve meal, rose nearly 20%. Frustrated citizens took to the streets to protest, demanding the repeal of ...
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    22,25 €

  • Głosy / Voices
    Jan Polkowski / Charles S. Kraszewski
    In December 1970, amid a harsh winter and an even harsher economic situation, the ruling communist regime in Poland chose to drastically raise prices on basic foodstuffs. Just before the Christmas holidays, for example, the price of fish, a staple of the traditional Christmas Eve meal, rose nearly 20%. Frustrated citizens took to the streets to protest, demanding the repeal of ...
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    26,43 €

  • Slavdom
    Ľudovít Štúr / Charles S. Kraszewski / Charles SKraszewski
    ’Why do you whimper and wail, O Tatra streams and rivers, who carry your plaintive lament resounding to the sea?’ asks the narrator toward the end of The Slovaks, in Ancient Days, and Now. They respond: ’Because our human compatriots do not join together in memory, as we our waters mix with our origin, and because their lives do not resound booming, but roll on unconsciously, l...
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    21,37 €

  • Slavdom
    Ľudovít Štúr / Charles S. Kraszewski
    ’Why do you whimper and wail, O Tatra streams and rivers, who carry your plaintive lament resounding to the sea?’ asks the narrator toward the end of The Slovaks, in Ancient Days, and Now. They respond: ’Because our human compatriots do not join together in memory, as we our waters mix with our origin, and because their lives do not resound booming, but roll on unconsciously, l...
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    28,46 €

  • Where Was the Angel Going?
    Jan Balabán / Charles S. Kraszewski / Charles SKraszewski
    ’Somewhere in the cosmos there are happier places,’ muses Martin Vrána, the hero of Jan Balabán’s novel Where was the Angel Going?. ’People are transported to the planet Earth for punishment. Part of the punishment is their ignorance of the fact. We’ve forgotten that we’ve forgotten.’ Yet, as this very reflection implies, in Martin’s case, part of his ’punishment’ is his ever-p...
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    22,04 €

  • Where Was the Angel Going?
    Jan Balabán / Charles S. Kraszewski
    ’Somewhere in the cosmos there are happier places,’ muses Martin Vrána, the hero of Jan Balabán’s novel Where was the Angel Going?. ’People are transported to the planet Earth for punishment. Part of the punishment is their ignorance of the fact. We’ve forgotten that we’ve forgotten.’ Yet, as this very reflection implies, in Martin’s case, part of his ’punishment’ is his ever-p...
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    25,76 €

  • Olanda
    Rafał Wojasiński / Charles S. Kraszewski
    I’ve been happy since the morning. Delighted, even. Everything seems so splendidly transient to me. That dust, from which thou art and unto which thou shalt return — it tempts me. And that’s why I wander about these roads, these woods, among the nearby houses, from which waft the aromas of fried pork chops, chicken soup, fish, diapers, steamed potatoes for the pigs; I lose my e...
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    22,16 €

  • Olanda
    Rafał Wojasiński / Charles S. Kraszewski / Charles SKraszewski
    I’ve been happy since the morning. Delighted, even. Everything seems so splendidly transient to me. That dust, from which thou art and unto which thou shalt return - it tempts me. And that’s why I wander about these roads, these woods, among the nearby houses, from which waft the aromas of fried pork chops, chicken soup, fish, diapers, steamed potatoes for the pigs; I lose my e...
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    25,88 €

  • A Burglar of the Better Sort
    Tytus Czyżewski / Charles S. Kraszewski
    A Burglar of the Better Sort offers, in the English translation of Charles S. Kraszewski, the entirety of Czyżewski’s surviving literary output, from surrealistic plays like Donkey and Sun in Metamorphosis and his inimitable ‘formistic poems’ through the playful Christmas ‘pastorals’ — which so delighted Czesław Miłosz — to his theoretical writings, which form the basis for his...
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    23,26 €

  • A Burglar of the Better Sort
    Tytus Czyżewski / Charles S. Kraszewski
    A Burglar of the Better Sort offers, in the English translation of Charles S. Kraszewski, the entirety of Czyżewski’s surviving literary output, from surrealistic plays like Donkey and Sun in Metamorphosis and his inimitable ‘formistic poems’ through the playful Christmas ‘pastorals’ — which so delighted Czesław Miłosz — to his theoretical writings, which form the basis for his...
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    31,21 €

  • The Mouseiad and other Mock Epics
    Ignacy Krasicki / Charles S. Kraszewski
    International brigades of mice and rats join forces to defend the rodents of Poland, threatened with extermination at the paws of cats favoured by the ancient ruler King Popiel, a sybaritic, cowardly ruler… The Hag of Discord incites a vicious rivalry between monastic orders, which only the good monks’ common devotion to… fortified spirits… is able to allay… The present transla...
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    23,51 €


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