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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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • Dramatic Works
    Zygmunt Krasiński / Charles S. Kraszewski
    “God hath denied me that angelic measure / Without which no man sees in me the poet,” writes Zygmunt Krasiński in one of his most recognisable lyrics. Yet while it may be true that his lyric output cannot rival in quality the verses of the other two great Polish Romantics, Adam Mickiewicz and Juliusz Słowacki, Krasiński’s dramatic muse gives no ground to any other.The Glagoslav...
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    26,47 €

  • Four Plays
    Juliusz Słowacki / Charles S. Kraszewski
    The crypt of Wawel Cathedral in Kraków is the Polish nation’s greatest pantheon. Here lie the earthly remains of its storied kings and queens, and two of its greatest poets, Adam Mickiewicz and Juliusz Słowacki. At the conclusion of his speech at Słowacki’s reburial in 1927, Marshal Józef Piłsudski commanded the guard of honour: “In the name of the Republic, I direct you, gentl...
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    26,43 €

  • The Sonnets
    Adam Mickiewicz / Charles S. Kraszewski
    Because the poetry of Adam Mickiewicz is so closely identified with the history of the Polish nation, one often reads him as an institution, rather than a real person. In the Crimean and Erotic Sonnets of the national bard, we are presented with the fresh, real, and striking poetry of a living, breathing man of flesh and blood. Mickiewicz proved to be a master of Petrarchan for...
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    23,78 €

  • 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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    22,19 €

  • The Secret History of my Sojourn in Russia
    Jaroslav Hašek / Charles S. Kraszewski
    Jaroslav Hašek (1883-1923) is known by readers around the world as the author of The Good Soldier Švejk, one of the greatest comic novels of all time. Not all of his fans are aware of his six year anabasis in Russia, however, which began with his capture on the front lines of Galicia during the First World War. The Secret History of My Sojourn in Russia, translated by Charles S...
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    22,64 €

  • Acropolis
    Stanisław Wyspiański / Charles S. Kraszewski
    Although he never left his native Kraków except for relatively short periods, Stanisław Wyspiański (1869-1907) achieved worldwide fame, both as a painter, and Poland’s greatest dramatist of the first half of the twentieth century. Acropolis: the Wawel Plays, brings together four of Wyspiański’s most important dramatic works in a new English translation by Charles S. Kraszewski....
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    31,76 €

  • Forefathers’ Eve
    Adam Mickiewicz / Charles S. Kraszewski
    Forefathers’ Eve [Dziady] is a four-part dramatic work begun circa 1820 and completed in 1832 – with Part I published only after the poet’s death, in 1860. The drama's title refers to Dziady, an ancient Slavic and Lithuanian feast commemorating the dead. This is the grand work of Polish literature, and it is one that elevates Mickiewicz to a position among the “great Europe...
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    23,70 €