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Lädt ... Rondo (1982)von Kazimierz Brandys
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InRondo, Kazimierz Brandys eloquently explores many of the obsessions of contemporary literature--politics, war, art, and personal exile--against the backdrop of a touching, enthralling love story. One of the previous century's great literary figures, Brandys "quickened the conscience and enriched the writing of the 20th century" (Time).Rondo is the culmination of a career of gripping portrayals of ordinary people in the mode of Socialist Realism that made him an icon. In his own words, Tom is an insignificant man, powerless to effect changes even in himself let alone in others. He is pathologically normal, with "something of Buster Keaton" to him. Yet an initially harmless fabrication motivated by his love for Tola, an actress of the Warsaw stage, will move him to center stage in one of the 20th century's most infamous conflicts and will ultimately change the course of history. Following the Nazi occupation of Warsaw at the outset of WWII, Tola wants to enlist in the Polish Resistance. To protect her, Tom, whose family connections have unexpectedly made him the symbolic heir to Polish nationalism, conscripts Tola into an imaginary political cadre--"Rondo." The idea is innocent at first, little more than a flight of Tom's fantasy, but through its own comic momentum, Rondo unexpectedly becomes a major player in the Polish underground. When Tom is drawn into the internal politics of the real Resistance, the results are not only highly entertaining but telling of the eternal follies of war. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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 Google Books — Lädt ...GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)891.8537Literature Literature of other languages Literature of east Indo-European and Celtic languages West and South Slavic languages (Bulgarian, Slovene, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Serbo-Croatian, and Macedonian) Polish Polish fiction 1919–1989Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt: (3.92)
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The writing in the book is amazing - the characters leap off the page and have stayed with me for days. "Tom" is now an old man, but in the 1930s he was a law student in Warsaw with a school friend called Wladek who had an acting job in the theatre. You need to read the book if you want to find out more, but Tom's obsessive love drives the story.
It is also the most challenging book - in terms of knowing what on earth is going on - that I've read in the last few years. If you like Chess Story or Pereira Maintains you will probably like this one, but don't read it if you're looking for something fast. You will want to keep reading if you can stand the confusion. "Tom" tells the story as if the reader already knows the public version of events. I felt like a strong wind was pushing me over every few pages! You might also want to have a quick look at Wikipedia if you don't know anything about Poland during WW2 and the uprising. I waded through Norman Davies' tome on how Poland got done over by the Allies a few years ago, and it helped me a lot, but I don't recommend that book unless you are REALLY into the detail. (