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Die Debut-Sammlung von Kurzgeschichten fur den anspruchsvollen Leser mit einer starken Personlichkeit, der an intellektuellen Spielen interessiert ist, am jonglieren mit kulturellen Motiven, der Verweise auf bekannte Symbole und Bedeutungen schatzt und der gleichzeitig dafur eigene Erklarungen und Interpretationen fur die Welt sucht. Jede der Geschichten ist in einem anderen Stil geschrieben und beruft sich auf andere kunstlerische Erfahrungen der westlichen Kultur und prasentiert dabei konsequent ironisch und pessimistisch, manchmal aber auch auf makabre Art eine Vision der Wirklichkeit. Die...

The Polish university is based on the Humboldt model, and can serve as a typical example of liberal education throughout Central and Eastern Europe. This book portrays an institution resistant to change and defying all attempts at reform. Currently, it is attempting to retain its identity with no regard to the rapidly changing world of science, culture and communication technologies that surrounds it. The absolute power of the professor, excessive administration and feudal subordination mean that such universities have lost touch with the local environment, and have become a factory for...

This collection of short stories is provocative, ironic, macabre... and surprising. Each story provides a wonderful relaxation for the intelligent mind and should be treated as an invitation to an intellectual game. The author plays with time, technique and character, so that the writer's style is revealed only after reading the whole. He possesses a characteristic ability to combine the improbable and macabre with an eternal worldliness (and the other way round) and to extract extraordinary beauty from the prosaic. It will stay with you long after reading the last page.