Can all of Venice – her canals, her squares, even her gondolas – fit into a flooded cellar? Such is the hope of those who occupy a house through which during these first days of the war the dreams of escape of an entire family creeps like clear water. A charming metaphor, chronicle of a sheer madness, this simple zany novel by Polish writer Wlodzimierz Odojewski, born in 1930, is exultantly droll, with the kind of drollery that can only arise from the most appalling events : the farewell to childhood, the beginning of the war, the loss of illusions.
TITLE : A season in Venice
AUTHOR : Wlodzimierz Odojewski
COUNTRY : Poland
AUTHOR : Wlodzimierz Odojewski
COUNTRY : Poland
NUMBER OF PAGES : 96
SOLD TO: SchirmerGraf (Germany) and Minúscula (Spain)
SOLD TO: SchirmerGraf (Germany) and Minúscula (Spain)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Born in Poznan, Poland, in 1930, Odojewski has acquired a reputation as an author, radio scriptwriter, and journalist. As well, he has received a number of literary prizes. His literary career began in 1951, when an excerpt from his book Wyspa ocalenia was read on Polish state radio. Dismissed for political reasons from his position as director in the Contemporary Theatre Studio of Polish radio, he left his native country in 1971 when he received a scholarship to study at the Berlin Academy of Literature. He has lived in the German capital ever since. He has also worked in the cultural affairs department of Radio Free Europe.
Born in Poznan, Poland, in 1930, Odojewski has acquired a reputation as an author, radio scriptwriter, and journalist. As well, he has received a number of literary prizes. His literary career began in 1951, when an excerpt from his book Wyspa ocalenia was read on Polish state radio. Dismissed for political reasons from his position as director in the Contemporary Theatre Studio of Polish radio, he left his native country in 1971 when he received a scholarship to study at the Berlin Academy of Literature. He has lived in the German capital ever since. He has also worked in the cultural affairs department of Radio Free Europe.