Polish literature

Antologija poljske pripovijetke XX stoljeća

The anthology, edited and translated by Zdravko Malić, a leading Croatian Polish scholar and founder of the Polish Language Department at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Zagreb, represents a key selection of Polish short fiction from the 20th century.

Bez dogme

Published in 1891, the novel is one of Henryk Sienkiewicz's most famous psychological and social works. Unlike his historical novels, this work presents an introspective and philosophical account of the decadent nobility of the 19th century.

Bijesni psi

U Rusiji 1918. bjesni građanski rat. Boljševici su izveli prevrat, ali Lenjin i Trocki još nisu potpuno preuzeli vlast nad zemljom. Djeluju druge političke partije, izlaze opozicijska glasila. Jedna od najvažnijih političkih grupacija su anarhisti...

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Devet

„Devet“ (1999.) Andrzeja Stasiuka, jednog od najvažnijih suvremenih poljskih pisaca, neobičan je triler koji prati malog trgovca Paweła, suvremenog Odiseja, čiji život se naglo mijenja kada ga utjerivači dugova opljačkaju i unište mu stan.

Devojka i golubovi

Mladić Edek živi sa starijim ocem koji pokušava zadržati sina uz sebe. Dječakova čežnja za slobodom i devojkom sukobljava se sa očevom posesivnošću. Golubovi simboliziraju nedostižnu slobodu. Konflikt vodi ka tragičnom raspletu.

Devojka i golubovi, Mlin na kamjoni

Film zvani želja

A book by a celebrated Polish director in which he talks about his films, as well as the social engagement of artists and "the conflict between social patronage and the personal world view of a director who makes films".

Gdje je David Weiser

"Where's David Weiser?" is a novel by Pawel Huelle that, after a three-year 'bunker' in Poland, was published in 1987 and was quickly declared the "novel of the decade" by local critics, as well as a national classic.

Granica

Through the fate of the ambitious Zenon Ziembiewicz, the novel Granica depicts the transgression of moral, social and human boundaries – careerism, class differences and the price of compromise in interwar Polish society.