Boleslaw Prus is often compared to Chekhov, and Prus’s masterpiece might be described as an intimate epic, a beautifully detailed, utterly absorbing exploration of life in late-nineteenth-ce
Widely held to be the most influential Polish poet of a generation that includes Czeslaw Milosz and Wislawa Szymborska, Tadeusz R￠?§ewicz gives voice in the sharpest, most disturbing way to the cr
Originally published as The Death of Mr. Baltisberger, the fourteen stories in Romance showcase the breadth of Bohumil Hrabal’s considerable gifts: his humor of the grotesque, his often surprising war
In his semiautobiographical novel, Cyclops, Croatian writer Ranko Marinkovic recounts the adventures of young theater critic Melkior Tresic, an archetypal antihero who decides to starve himself to av
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic has done more than anyone since Czeslaw Milosz to introduce English-language readers to the greatest modern Slavic poets. In Oranges and Snow, Simic continues
A new book of poems by Wislawa Szymborska is an occasion to celebrate. These twenty-seven poems consider life on earth, from the microbe to the apocalypse. Along the way they take in, among other obj
From his First Book of Poems, Sabovnice ur (Chessboards of Hours), published in 1995 when he was twenty-two-years old, Ales Steger has been considered one of Slovenia's most promising poets. That prom
A searing psychological thriller set in wartime Poland, Pornografia is one of the highest regarded works by Witold Gombrowicz, a master of twentiethcentury world literature. In the midst of the German
This collection of sharp, spare, occasionally absurd, cruel, touching, and yet always generous short-short fictions addresses the fundamental difficulty we have in making the people we love understan
When state proscutor Teodor Szacki investigates a murder in a Warsaw monastery, he encounters a flirtatious young journalist, an eccentric psychiatrist, and a paranoid historian in his seach that conn
One of the principal authors of the “brulion” generation, which has been influenced largely by American poets such as Frank O’Hara, Allen Ginsberg, and John Ashbery, MLB (Milosz Biedrzycki) has publis
In the last days of the post-Stalinist thaw in 1963 Poland, Jerzyk becomes involved with an assassination plot arranged by his father, uncle, and their friend Mr. Traba in an attempt to take back thei
Following the success of 2005's Europeana: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century, Patrik OurIOedniI?k again confounds expectations with what seems, on the surface, to be a detective novel...
The second in a trilogy of autobiographical novels is written from the perspective of the author's wife about their life in Prague from the 1950s to the 1970s, when Communist repression of artists was
A comic classic of world literature, Aleko Konstantinov’s 1895 novel Bai Ganyo follows the misadventures of rose-oil salesman Ganyo Balkanski (“Bai” is a Bulgarian title of intimate
Gombrowicz, Polish Modernism, and the Subversion of Form provides a new and comprehensive account of the writing and thought of the Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz. While Gombrowicz is probably the ke
Presents a post modern retelling of a Slavic myth through the stories of a writer who grants her mother's final wish by traveling to her hometown in Bulgaria, an elderly woman who wakes up every day h
