Andrzej Stasiuk

An American release of Poland's Nike Award-winning volume of travel narratives describes the author's journeys through Central and Eastern Europe and his encounters with the dark underside of numerous cultures. 12,000 first printing.

Travels in the Other Europe

On the Road to Babadag

Jadąc do Babadag

Fado

Bill Johnston

Stasiuk’s masterpiece—in line with the work of Danilo Kis and countryman Bruno Schulz—is finally made available in English in a stunning translation by Bill Johnston. At several points in the haunting Dukla, Andrzej Stasiuk claims that what he is trying to do is “write a book about light.” The result is a beautiful, lyrical series of evocations of a very specific locale at different times of the year, in different kinds of weather, and with different human landscapes. Dukla, in fact, is a real place: a small resort town not far from where Stasiuk now lives. Taking an usual form—a short essay, a novella, and then a series of brief portraits of local people or events—this book, though bordering on the metaphysical, the mystical, even the supernatural, never loses sight of the particular time, and above all place, in which it is rooted. Andrzej Stasiuk is one of the leading writers of Poland’s younger generation, and is currently one of the most popular Polish novelists in English translation.

Dukla (Polish Literature Series)

Debiutanckie opowiadania Andrzeja Stasiuka okrzyknięte "epifaniami spod celi". Alegoryczna opowieść człowieka zamkniętego w więzieniu odtworzona z naturalistyczną dokładnością. Ruch po klaustrofobicznej przestrzeni celi, ale i własnego ciała przenosi bohatera w nowy wymiar, stając się niejako podróżą metafizyczną, niosącą ze sobą nadzieję oczyszczenia. Mocna, męska proza oparta na osobistym doświadczeniu.~ back cover.

Mury Hebronu

Przewóz

dwa eseje o Europie zwanej Środkową

Moja Europa

"Ukraina, Rosja, Azja. Narrator napotyka ludzi, duchy i policjantów. Ale przede wszystkim opowiada o swojej miłości do samochodów. Snuje sowizdrzalską elegię na odejście silnika spalinowego."--Back cover.

Osiołkiem

Die Mauern von Hebron

Opowieści galicyjskie

Dziewięć

Kucając

Dukla

"Andrzej Stasiuk is one of the most interesting literary figures to have emerged in post-communist Poland. The Walls of Hebron (1992), his first book, is a collection of 12 stories about prison based on the author's first-hand experience of the life inside after after he was jailed for deserting the Army in 1981 when Poland was under martial law. The book is not only a harrowing social and cultural commentary on the concept of freedom, or even the penal system, which he anchors in the biblical tradition, but also an extraordinary literary and stylistic exercise of unusual poetic power. The stories it contains are astonishing vignettes of the life inside. The book was commissioned in 1985 by an underground publishing house while official censorship was still in force. After receiving the manuscript, the publisher decided against publication. The Walls of Hebron was finally published in 1992 after the collapse of Communism by a small independent publisher and quickly gained a cult following."

Nine

Pawel, a young businessman in debt to loan sharks, wakes up one April morning in a sea of debris, broken glass, ripped upholstery, and clothes spilling out of the wardrobe. He turns to two friends for help: Bolek, a former coal miner, now a drug dealer who lives in tasteless luxury; and Jacek, an addict, who is himself on the run through Warsaw, a washed-out city, a hostile landscape of apartment blocks, railroad stations, wild gardens, factories, and suburban wastelands. In this novel Andrzej Stasiuk portrays a generation of Poles, freed from outdated ideologies but left feeling adrift and disconnected from family, neighbors, and friends. At once existential crime fiction and a work of art, Nine establishes Stasiuk as a major voice in European literature.

Wydawnictwo Czarne

Wschód

Journey through Poland, Ukraine, Slovenia, and other places neglected by tourists, with “an accomplished stylist with an eye for telling detail” (Irvine Welsh). Andrzej Stasiuk is a restless and indefatigable traveler. By car, train, bus, and ferry, he goes from his native Poland to Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, Albania, Moldova, and Ukraine—to small towns and villages with strangely evocative names. “The heart of my Europe,” he tells us, “beats in Sokolów Podlaski and in Huși. It does not beat in Vienna.” In Comrat, a funeral procession moves slowly down the main street, the open coffin on a pickup truck, an old woman dressed in black brushing away the flies above the face of the deceased. In Soroca, he locates a baroque-Byzantine-Tatar-Turkish encampment, to meet Gypsies. And all the way to Babadag, between the Baltic Coast and the Black Sea, Stasiuk indulges his curiosity and his love for the forgotten places and people of Europe. “There isn’t quite a name for the region that holds the Polish writer Andrzej Stasiuk in thrall. The general drift is from ‘the land of King Ubu to the land of Count Dracula’, Poland to Romania. . . . Its nucleus is the landlocked centre of Central Europe; its protoplasm spreads like an amoeba through the Balkans. It cannot be convincingly mapped. . . . As travel writing, this is unconventional, but as literature profoundly authentic.” —The Independent (UK) “A mesmerizing, not-to-be-missed trek through a little-visited region of the world.” —Kirkus Reviews “A eulogy for the old Europe, the Europe both in and out of time, the Europe now lost in the folds of the map.” —The Guardian (UK)

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