Polish literature

Book Reviews

• Bronislaw Geremek: Poverty - A History*
  - with a focus on late medieval and early modern Europe
• Witold Gombrowicz: Ferdydurke*
  - a comedy of pedagogy and identity
• Ryszard Kapuscinski: The Emperor
  - the end of Haile Selassie and his court
• Tadeusz Konwicki: The Polish Complex
  - personal and national angsts intertwine
• Stanislaw Lem: The Futurological Congress*
  - an inventive science fiction comedy
• Piotr Szewc: Annihilation
  - a one day tour of a Polish-Jewish town in the 1930s
• Olga Tokarczuk: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead**
  - three centuries ago Janina would have been burned as a witch
• Magdalena Tulli: In Red
  - love, commerce and war in an imaginary Polish town

See also: Eastern Europe | world literature

My grandmother and my partner's mother are of Polish background - both from the south of the country - and I have visited Poland twice, though only briefly.