The graveyard
(Book)
Uniform Title
Author
Contributors
Guterman, Norbert, 1900-1984 translator.
Series
Published
Brooklyn, NY : Melville House Publishing, [2013].
ISBN
9781612192949, 1612192947
Status
Description
""A spokesman for those who were angry and beat, turbulent, temperamental and tortured ... In The Graveyard, Hlasko stabs his knife into the regime and draws it out dripping blood."--The New York Times "Hlasko's story comes off the page at you like a pit bull." --The Washington Post When Marek ;asko sent this novel to publishers in Poland in the mid-1950s, it was uniformly rejected. When he asked why, he was told: "This Poland doesn't exist." Long out of print, The Graveyard is ;asko's portrait of a system built on such denial and willful blindness. Factory worker Franciszek Kowalski is on his way home one evening after drinking with an old friend from the People's Army when he unthinkingly yells some insults at a policeman. His outburst is taken as criticism of the government, and he is arrested and then expelled from the Party. Kowalski attempts to rehabilitate himself by gathering testimonies from the men he had fought alongside, but each meeting with his former comrades takes him further into the underworld that he realizes has been there all along. Written midway through ;Hlasko's meteoric career, The Graveyard set its author and the Polish Communist government implacably against each other, and it's easy to see why: asko pulls no punches in portraying a regime that is maintained by constant surveillance, intimidation, and profound psychological manipulation. A classic novel of political disillusionment from one of Poland's seminal writers, an original "Angry Young Man" who lived fast, died young, and wrote brilliantly"-- Provided by publisher.
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More Details
Published
Brooklyn, NY : Melville House Publishing, [2013].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xiii, 140 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
ISBN
9781612192949, 1612192947
Notes
General Note
Originally published under the title Cmentarze by E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1959.
Description
""A spokesman for those who were angry and beat, turbulent, temperamental and tortured ... In The Graveyard, Hlasko stabs his knife into the regime and draws it out dripping blood."--The New York Times "Hlasko's story comes off the page at you like a pit bull." --The Washington Post When Marek ;asko sent this novel to publishers in Poland in the mid-1950s, it was uniformly rejected. When he asked why, he was told: "This Poland doesn't exist." Long out of print, The Graveyard is ;asko's portrait of a system built on such denial and willful blindness. Factory worker Franciszek Kowalski is on his way home one evening after drinking with an old friend from the People's Army when he unthinkingly yells some insults at a policeman. His outburst is taken as criticism of the government, and he is arrested and then expelled from the Party. Kowalski attempts to rehabilitate himself by gathering testimonies from the men he had fought alongside, but each meeting with his former comrades takes him further into the underworld that he realizes has been there all along. Written midway through ;Hlasko's meteoric career, The Graveyard set its author and the Polish Communist government implacably against each other, and it's easy to see why: asko pulls no punches in portraying a regime that is maintained by constant surveillance, intimidation, and profound psychological manipulation. A classic novel of political disillusionment from one of Poland's seminal writers, an original "Angry Young Man" who lived fast, died young, and wrote brilliantly"-- Provided by publisher.
Language
Translated from the Polish.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Hłasko, M., & Guterman, N. (2013). The graveyard . Melville House Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Hłasko, Marek, 1934-1969 and Norbert Guterman. 2013. The Graveyard. Brooklyn, NY: Melville House Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Hłasko, Marek, 1934-1969 and Norbert Guterman. The Graveyard Brooklyn, NY: Melville House Publishing, 2013.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Hłasko, M. and Guterman, N. (2013). The graveyard. Brooklyn, NY: Melville House Publishing.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Hłasko, Marek, and Norbert Guterman. The Graveyard Melville House Publishing, 2013.
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