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Poland Freeze Frames - Janusz Anderman

Poland Freeze Frames

By: Janusz Anderman, Nina Taylor (Translator)

eBook | 1 December 2018 | Edition Number 1

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Poland’s recent history from Solidarity to martial law, from martial law to the end of communism and today’s rough and tumble politics are all encompassed in this collection of stories by Janusz Anderman’s relentlessly honest gaze and his stark ‘tape recorder ear’ – the raw prose he pioneered amid the mainly lyric poetry of the Polish dissidents.

 “The crowd [here] has similarities to characters in the puppet theatre…the Journalist, the Pro­vocateur, the Official, the Drunkard, the Patriot Pole, the Oppositionist Pole, the Idiot Pole. They declaim convulsively on some current issue and vanish again into the crowd….This vision is suffi­ciently grotesque to be apocalyptic.”                              JERZY PILCH in The World of Janusz Anderman

“These intensely private visions carry powerful resonance.” NEW YORK TIMES

“An intense, committed writer whose sheer talent jostles energetically against his muckraker’s impulses; a blunt polemicist redeemed by his gifts for gallows humor and surrealist portraiture.”                                                 PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

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Janusz Anderman's writings first began appearing in the 1970s: Dead Telephone Games in 1976, Hitchhiking (under the pseudonym Marcin Czech in 1978), and Playing for Time in 1979. The stories of Poland under Black Light were banned under martial law, but appeared in Polish clandestine editions from 1983, and The Edge of the World in 1988. After the end of communism he continued publishing, Prison Disease (1992, with introduction by Tadeusz Konwicki), Meanwhile (1998), Photographs (sketches from his journalism, 2002, with updates 2007, 2010), The Whole Time (novel, 2006), and most recently Black Heart (2015). He writes regularly for the journal Gazeta Wyborcza, has produced screenplays for films including the prize-winning What am I doing here? Tadeusz Konwicki (which he also directed, 2009), has written and translated, directed and adapted TV and live theatrical drama in Polish including the famous Czech story Closely Watched Trains (2017). He is a member of the Polish Film Academy. In 2011 he was awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. In 2010 and again in 2015 he joined the committee of cultural figures supporting the candidacy of Bronislaw Komorowski for the presidency of Poland.

"Anderman writes, apparently with the harshest realism, of the gritty details of everyday life. And yet there is something magical...in the result." LOS ANGELES TIMES

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