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A Dreambook for Our Time
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Item specifics
- Condition
- price
- 102.45
- yearPublished
- 1976
- ISBN
- 9780140041156
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
014004115X
ISBN-13
9780140041156
eBay Product ID (ePID)
27038249745
Product Key Features
Original Language
Polish
Book Title
Dreambook for Our Time
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1976
Topic
Sociology / General, General
Genre
Fiction, Social Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
8 Oz
Item Length
5 in
Item Width
7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
83-013361
TitleLeading
A
Dewey Edition
18
Dewey Decimal
891.8/5/37
Synopsis
"We live, as we dream--alone," Conrad revealed in "Heart of Darkness." This novel by Tadeusz Konwicki, a Pole writing in his own language, is an extension of the theme of dream and life and their interlocking realities, and man's attempt to come to meaningful and personal terms with an existential and absurd universe.The antihero (in the Camusian sense) is shown at the opening of the novel just coming out of a coma, having tried to commit suicide by poison. He is surrounded by provincial townsfolk, villagers who in their isolation and emotional impoverishment have turned their energies to creating a new religion--a private God, non-identifiable as either Christian or non-Christian.Called "one of the most terrifying novels in postwar Polish literature, ...greeted upon its appearance (in 1963) as a major literary sensation" (Czeslaw Milosz, "History of Polish Literature), " the novel moves through a series of flashbacks between present reality and recalled experiences. The language is that of a dream sequence with metaphors of nightmarish quality, both in intensity and "illogicality."The young Pole who narrates his experiences reveals himself to be caught up in a labyrinth leading nowhere, driven by an urge which ultimately is a need for punishment, and represents man's longing for a responsive and benevolent force over his destiny. Acutely feeling the lack, faced with a godless universe, he sees his choice to be between selfassertive survival at any price--moral, sensual, intellectual--or the selfpronouncement of worthlessness and the denouement of peace attained by suicide. The hero "escapes" death and is condemned to death-in-life.Konwicki's descriptions of the brutal mutual massacres of some of the war experiences of the narrator are unforgettable in their irony. The dialogue is witty and ironic, and retains the vernacular thrust of the Polish original. The author's experience as director and script writer earned him a Grand Prix (1958) at Venice for a film entitled "The Last Day of Summer." His vivid awareness of the passing values in an increasingly superficial world of interrelationships and goals makes this passionate work a powerful indictment of modern man's progress in guilt and war and his impotence in melding his idealistic dreams and his life.
LC Classification Number
PG7158.K6513S43 1983
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