The street of crocodiles /
Author: Schulz, Bruno
The book of laughter and forgetting /
Author: Kundera, Milan
A tomb for Boris Davidovich :
a novel /
Author: Kis, Danilo
The farewell party /
Author: Kundera, Milan
Sanatorium under the sign of the hourglass /
Author: Schulz, Bruno
The joke /
Author: Kundera, Milan
Laughable loves /
Author: Kundera, Milan
Ashes and diamonds /
Author: Andrzejewski, Jerzy
This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen;
and other stories.
Author: Borowski, Tadeusz
A dreambook for our time /
Author: Konwicki, Tadeusz
Closely watched trains /
Author: Hrabal, Bohumil
Opium and other stories /
Author: Csáth, Géza
The Polish complex /
Author: Konwicki, Tadeusz
The city builder /
Author: Konrád, György
Ferdydurke /
Author: Gombrowicz, Witold
The guinea pigs :
[a novel] /
Author: Vaculík, Ludvík
The case worker /
Author: Konrád, György
Laughable loves /
Author: Kundera, Milan
― Mr. Jaggers, Monday, 13 September 2004 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)
did you find that on the web or just copy it from the back of one of the books? (fyi some of the original penguin paperbacks have titles and plot synopsis for all the other books in the series)
there were a few boxed sets in this series: 4-5 volumes each in a hard box. you see them on ebay now and then.
ashes and diamonds is a tough one to get a hold of.
― equinox, Tuesday, 14 September 2004 13:34 (twenty-one years ago)
five years pass...
So was this the Central European Classics of its day?
Really wanna read Konwicki (having read a rave about him). Borowski and Andrzejewski were 'profiled' by Milosz in a Captive Mind so I was also reading about them today.
Borowski sounds amazing: the Milosz profile is quite tender, and the way he flips it into a tragedy is compelling, to say the least. Not sure what to make of Milosz almost making an example of these writers. Those were, after all, tough times but I felt a bit cross about that, especially in regards to Borowski.
But I guess it had to be done.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 21:11 (fifteen years ago)