"If laughter actually is the best medicine, fortunate readers of this wonderful novel will surely enjoy perfect health for the rest of their days."—Kirkus Reviews[/i] A comic gem, Jerzy Pilch's A Thousand Peaceful Cities[/i] takes place in 1963, in the latter days of the Polish post-Stalinist «thaw.» The narrator, Jerzyk («little Jerzy»), is a teenager who is keenly interested in his father, a retired postal administrator, and his father's closest friend, Mr. Traba, a failed...
J erzy Pilch (1952–2020) w swojej autobiografii – uzupełnionej archiwalnymi zdjęciami z Wisły i z rodzinnego albumu – zmienia czas utracony w czas odzyskany dzięki ocalającemu darowi opowiadania, bo „to, czego nie pamiętamy albo czego nie umiemy opisać – nie istnieje”. „ Autobiografia w sensie ścisłym, a nawet umownym to taka opowieść o sobie, którą sam pisarz uznał za kanoniczną, a więc jedyną, jaka (jego zdaniem) nadaje się do przekazania innym. Pisząc ją, Jerzy Pilch dokonał ostentacyjnej...
"Pilch's antic sensibility confirms that he is the compatriot of Witold Gombrowicz, the Polish maestro of absurdist pranks. But readers with a taste for the fermented Irish blarney of Flann O’Brien, Samuel Beckett, and John Kennedy Toole might also savor Pilch."—Barnes & Noble Review[/i]Neither strictly a collection of stories nor a novel, the ten pieces that comprise My First Suicide straddles the line between intimate revelation and drunken confession. These stories...
"Pilch's prose is masterful, and the bulk of The Mighty Angel[/i] evokes the same numb, floating sensation as a bottle of Zloldkowa Gorzka."—L Magazine[/i] The Mighty Angel[/i] concerns the alcoholic misadventures of a writer named Jerzy. Eighteen times he's woken up in rehab. Eighteen times he's been released—a sober and, more or less, healthy man—after treatment at the hands of the stern therapist Moses Alias I Alcohol. And eighteen times...
