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.

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Henryk Sienkiewicz

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.

Chopin

Devet

„Neun“ (1999) von Andrzej Stasiuk, einem der bedeutendsten polnischen Gegenwartsautoren, ist ein ungewöhnlicher Thriller über den kleinen Ladenbesitzer Paweł, einen modernen Odysseus, dessen Leben sich schlagartig ändert, als er von Schuldeneintreibern au

Devojka i golubovi

Der junge Edek lebt bei seinem betagten Vater, der ihn unbedingt an sich binden will. Edeks Sehnsucht nach Freiheit und einem Mädchen kollidiert mit der Besitzgier seines Vaters. Die Tauben symbolisieren die unerreichbare Freiheit. Der Konflikt führt zu e

Devojka i golubovi, Mlin na kamjoni

Fenomeni Wojtyłine iznimnosti. Prilozi knjizevnoj biografiji pape Ivana Pavla II

Eine von Pero Mioč herausgegebene Sammlung von Essays und Gedichtübersetzungen von Karol Wojtyła (Papst Johannes Paul II.). Das Buch leistet einen Beitrag zur literarischen Biografie des großen Papstes und hebt seine poetische Ausnahmestellung, seine spir

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.