Andrzej Stasiuk,Bill Johnston
At several points in the haunting ,Dukla,, Andrzej Stasiuk claims that what he is trying to do is â€œwrite a book about light.â€ The result is a beautiful, lyrical series of evocations of a very specific locale at different times of the year, in different kinds of weather, and with different human landscapes. Dukla, in fact, is a real place: a small resort town not far from where Stasiuk now lives. Taking an usual formâ€”a short essay, a novella, and then a series of brief portraits of local people or eventsâ€”this book, though bordering on the metaphysical, the mystical, even the supernatural, never loses sight of the particular time, and above all place, in which it is rooted. Andrzej Stasiuk is one of the leading writers of Polandâ€™s younger generation, and is currently one of the most popular Polish novelists in English translation.
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Dukla