Paweł Huelle

Weiser Dawidek

"Kiedy bohater na początku lat dziewięćdziesiątych wsiada z instruktorką prawa jazdy do małego fiata, umiera ze wstydu. Prawie. Ratują go historie, które zaczyna snuć coraz bardziej zasłuchanej instruktorce. O babce, która wpadła citroenem pod pociąg pospieszny z Wilna do Lwowa, dziadku, któremu Sowieci zarekwirowali mercedesa... W jego opowieści zaczynają wkradać się wątki hrabalowskie, a w lusterku wstecznym czeski pisarz w czapce szofera uśmiecha się pod nosem. Przezabawna nostalgiczna opowieść o przeszłości, piknikach w sosnowych lasach, zawodach balonowych i cudownych chromowanych karoseriach. "

Mercedes-Benz. Z listów do Hrabala

Four classmates in Gdansk in 1957 swear to keep secret the events that took place in a hollow behind the nearby firing range one mysterious afternoon

Who was David Weiser?

Mercedes Benz.

Castorp

Opowieści chłodnego morza

Set in Gdansk, centers on a single day in the future when twelve men, invited by a mutual friend, agree to model for a photographic session for a modern version of the Last Supper, a reunion that is disrupted by a series of terrorist bombs that paralyze t

The Last Supper

"Okrzyknięta przez krytykę arcydziełem, jedna z najwybitniejszych powieści ostatnich dekad, zaliczana już do klasyki polskiej literatury. Bohater i zarazem narrator książki wspomina tajemnicze wydarzenia sprzed wielu lat. Usiłuje rozwikłać zagadkę tytułowego Weisera. Tajemniczy, obdarzony niezwykłymi zdolnościami i charyzmą żydowski chłopiec pewnego upalnego lata zniknął w niewyjaśnionych okolicznościach. Magiczna, pełna uroku powieść o dzieciństwie, pamięci i granicach poznania. "

Stories from a Polish writer, mixing magic and realism. In Uncle Henryk, a boy and his uncle, lost in a snowstorm, come across a town where conflicts are settled by cockfights. In the The Table, a wife wants it thrown out the house because it once belonged to a German, while her husband defends the owner as a brave individual who fought the Nazis.

Stories

Moving House

The narrator thinks back on the story of David Weiser, a mysterious classmate who in 1957 disappeared without a trace

Pawel Huelle imagines the adventures of Hans Castorp from Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain.

In the Polish city of Gdansk, our narrator Pawel tells of the driving lessons he took in the early 1990s, shortly after the end of communism. As he struggles with the tiny Fiat's gearbox, causing chaos while stalled at a crossroads, Pawel entertains his instructor Miss Ciwle with stories of his grandparents before the war and of his father in the 1970s, centered on their ownership of Mercedes-Benz cars - the outings, the races, the crashes and the inevitable repairs. Based on fact and illustrated with personal photographs, these tales contrast the golden era of Poland's pre-war independence with the dismal communist years, and with the uncertain new chapter in the country's history that had only just begun when Pawel was learning to drive. Huelle creates a portrait of three generations amid life-changing historical events.

From Letters to Hrabal

Mercedes-Benz

This collection of short stories includes one about a Polish family which is nearly split asunder by the political implications of its German dining table. Pawel Huelle's first novel, Who Was David Weiser?, was shortlisted for the 1991 Independent Foreign Fiction Award.

Paweł Huelle

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