The first English translation of a powerful and disturbing Polish wartime novella.
Kornel Filipowicz (1913-1990) was a Polish novelist, poet and
screenwriter. He studied biology in Krakow and lived in that city
for most of his life. His first book of poetry, an edition of ten
copies, came out in 1943, and established him as a leading figure
in the Polish avant-garde. During the war he was arrested and
imprisoned in the Gross-Rosen and Sachsenhausen concentration
camps. In later years he became a close friend of the poet and
Nobel Laureate Wislawa Szymborska, with whom he exchanged thousands
of letters. The first of these he sent in April 1966, enclosing
photographs of monkeys from Krakow Zoo.
Anna Zaranko is a translator from the Polish, Russian and French.
She lives in Jesmond Vale.
provocative, troubling, awkward . . . a proper classic
*The Sunday Times*
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