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"A Minor Apocalypse, which last year brought its author the prestigious Italian Mondello Prize," writes George Theiner in the British Bookseller, "is likely to make Tadeusz Konwicki the best-known contemporary East European writer after Solzhenitsyn and the Czech novelist Milan Kundera." The masterwork of a prolific Polish writer, A Minor Apocalypse is the story of what may turn out to be its protagonist's last day on earth.On a gloomy autumn morning, Konwicki—the author, narrator, and hero of this remarkable novel—is visited by two old comrades from the opposition, who propose that he set himself on fire in front of Communist Party headquarters that evening. Reluctantly, and believing he can always back out, Konwicki accepts. For the rest of the day and the book, he wanders, gas can in hand, through a Warsaw that is both surreal and all too real. Typical is his run-in with the secret police, who inject him with a drug that makes him so sensitive to pain that the flick of a finger against his flesh causes him to howl in agony. There is also Nadezhda, the beautiful Russian girl with slightly slanted green eyes, whom he comes to love in the course of an hour. A Minor Apocalypse is many books. It is a personal testament containing both Konwicki's last thoughts and his personal remedy for dandruff, and a roman a clef in which prominent Polish figures, such as film director Andrzej Wajda and KOR founder Jacek Kuron, appear, thinly disguised in satire. It is as well a tract on Polish Russian relations, for on that same surreal autumn day Poland "applies" for membership in the U.S.S.R. All the various themes are kept jumping on a thread of suspense that slackens and tautens by turns, for we are not certain, until the final paragraph, whether Konwicki will go through with his martyrdom. "Like such other anarchic spirits as Flann O'Brien and Celine, Konwicki has a lovely light way of writing, which never clogs chaos with self-pity and bestows upon.

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As in his novel  The Polish Complex, Konwicki's  A Minor Apocalypse stars a narrator and character named Konwicki, who has been asked to set himself on fire that evening in front of the Communist Party headquarters in Warsaw in an act of protest. He accepts the commission, but without any clear idea of whether he will actually go through with the self-immolation. He spends the rest of the day wandering the streets of Warsaw, being tortured by the secret police and falling in love. Both himself and Everyman, the character-author experiences the effects of ideologies and bureaucracies gone insane with, as always in history, the individual struggling for survival rather than offering himself up on the pyre of "the greater good." Brilliantly translated by Richard Lourie,  A Minor Apocalypse is one of the most important novels to emerge from Poland in the last twenty five years., Paperback, Ausgabe: 1st Aventura ed, Label: Vintage, Vintage, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 1984-04-12, Freigegeben: 1984-04-12, Studio: Vintage, Verkaufsrang: 3868646.

Von Händler/Antiquariat, Onekama Books [326025], Onekama, MI, U.S.A.
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