Isbn: 9780140041156 - a dream book for our time (6 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Writers from the Other Europe series, General Editor: Philip Roth. Translated by David Welsh. Introduction by Leszek Kolakowski. Reprinted 1983. 282pp. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in Near Fine condition. "The world of dreams and the world of waking meet in this extraordinary book. [] The time is the early 1960s; the narrator, a young Pole, emerges from a coma after trying to poison himself. Surrounding him are provincial villagers, people whose lives were forever shattered by the trauma of World War II. The incoherent mass of his own wartime memories arises--nightmarish images of guerrilla warfare, blood, cruelty, betrayal, and guilt. As the past and present succeed each other in his mind with frightening illogic, he sees his choice to be between self-assertive survival and the peace of self-destruction. Tadeusz Konwicki's sensitivity to human anguish and despair makes this novel a passionate variation on the theme of Heart of Darkness: 'We live, as we dream--alone.'" [publisher copy] "One of the most terrifying novels in postwar Polish literature."--Czeslaw Milosz. Near-pristine paperback w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, despite slight shelfwear & uniform Penguin-age to pages o/w unmarked, a square & tight binding w/no creases in spine. Cover design by Neil Stuart reprints UPI press photographic image of frontline battery. Quite presentable.…

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

paperback. Condizione: As New. First Paperback Edition. Publisher: Penguin Books, New York, 1976. FINE- in illustrated wraps, as issued. Previous owner's bookplate on inside cover, otherwise as new. First US. Softcover Edition, First Printing.

20x13. Tapa blanda. 282 pgs. Texto en inglés. 674386.

Paperback. Condizione: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.