Originally published in Poland in 1948, and acclaimed as one of the finest postwar Polish novels, Ashes and Diamonds takes place in the spring of 1945, as the nation is in the throes of its transformation to People' Poland. Communists, socialists, and nationalists; thieves and black marketeers; servants and fading aristocrats; veteran terrorists and bands of murderous children bewitched by the lure of crime and adventure--all of these converge on a provincial town's chief hotel, a microcosm of an uprooted world.

Ashes and Diamonds (Writers from the Other Europe)

Literature & Fiction

Andrzejewski, Jerzy

Literary

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Originally published in Poland in 1948, and acclaimed as one of the finest postwar Polish novels, Ashes and Diamonds takes place in the spring of 1945, as the nation is in the throes of its transformation to People' Poland. Communists, socialists, and nationalists; thieves and black marketeers; servants and fading aristocrats; veteran terrorists and bands of murderous children bewitched by the lure of crime and adventure--all of these converge on a provincial town's chief hotel, a microcosm of an uprooted world.

Ashes and Diamonds

Northwestern University Press

Ashes and Diamonds (European Classics)

At the height of the Nazi extermination campaign in the Warsaw Ghetto, a young Jewish woman, Irena, seeks the protection of her former lover, a young architect, Jan Malecki. By taking her in, he puts his own life and the safety of his family at risk. Over a four-day period, Tuesday through Friday of Holy Week 1943, as Irena becomes increasinglytraumatized by her situation, Malecki questions his decision to shelter Irena in the apartment where Malecki, his pregnant wife, and his younger brotherreside. Added to his dilemma is the broader context of Poles’ attitudes toward the Jewish question” and the plight of the Jews locked in the ghetto duringthe final moments of its existence. Few fictional works dealing with the war have been written so close in time to the events that inspired them. No other Polish novel treats the range of Polish attitudes toward the Jews with such unflinching honesty. Jerzy Andrzejewski’s Holy Week (Wielki Tydzien, 1945), one of the significant literary works to be published immediately following the Second World War, now appears in English for the first time. This translation of Andrzejewski’s Holy Week began as a group project in an advanced Polish language course at the University of Pittsburgh. Class members Daniel M. Pennell, Anna M. Poukish, and Matthew J. Russin contributed to the translation; the instructor, Oscar E. Swan, was responsible for the overall accuracy and stylistic unity of the translation as well as for the biographical and critical notes and essays.

Holy Week: A Novel of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Polish and Polish American Studies)

Ohio University Press

The Inquisitors (English and Polish Edition)

Greenwood Pub Group

En Las puertas del paraíso Andrzejewski teje con singular maestría una finísima y apretada red de monólogos en que el lector irá descubriendo que más allá de la fuerza de la fe de Dios, lo que en verdad parece mover a los jóvenes protagonistas es el frenético nacimiento de la pasión amorosa. Una narración de excepcional belleza donde se confunde lo humano y lo sagrado, lo racional y lo onírico, el amor sin esperanzas y el asalto corporal; en fin, una obra celebrada por Sergio Pitol como una pieza perfecta de escritura: "Cuando el autor polaco hablaba en el Café del Bristol de los grandes retos literarios y del deseo de alcazar la gran forma como máxima virtud literaria, yo pensaba en La puertas del paraíso. Jerzy Andrzejewki (Varsovia 1909-1980). Se dio a conocer con cuentos y novelas de trasfondo psicológico. En 1948 publicó su novela, que le daría reconocimiento internacional, Cenizas y diamantes, en la que refleja los problemas de la sociedad polaca en la posguerra, y que fue llevada al cine en 1961 por Andrzej Wajda. Tras distanciarse del partido comunista, contribuyó a la literatura del deshielo con novelas en las que denunciaba la opresión estalinista. Esta disidencia transformó su literatura en una forma de resistencia permanente ante el llamado "real socialismo".

Las puertas del paraíso

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