Available for the first time in English, Hlasko's explosive memoir will marvel Western readers; it is a portrait of a literary renegade who ran afoul of the Polish authorities in 1958 when he traveled to Paris and published an anticommunist novel in the emigre journal "Kultura." Stripped of his Polish citizenship, he became an itinerant traveler from that point on, living the life of a vagabond in various places including Israel, the United States, and Germany, where he was mysteriously found dead in 1969 at the age of 35. Told in a voice suffused with grit and black humor, Hlasko's...
Available for the first time in English, Hlasko's explosive memoir will marvel Western readers; it is a portrait of a literary renegade who ran afoul ...
"Hlasko's story comes off the page at you like a pit bull."--The Washington Post
"His writing is taut and psychologically nuanced like that of the great dime-store novelist Georges Simenon, his novelistic world as profane as Isaac Babel's."--Wall Street Journal
"Spokesman for those who were angry and beat . . . turbulent, temperamental, and tortured."--The New York Times
"A must-read . . . piercing and compelling."--Kirkus Reviews
"A self-taught writer with an uncanny gift for narrative and dialogue."--Roman Polanski
"Marek Hlasko...
"Hlasko's story comes off the page at you like a pit bull."--The Washington Post
"His writing is taut and psychologically nuanced like...
