Marek Hlasko: 4 books

"Hlasko's story comes off the page at you like a pit bull."-The Washington Post“His writing is taut and psychologically nuanced like that of the great dime-store novelist Georges Simenon, his novelistic world as profane as Isaac Babel's.”-Wall Street Journal"Spokesman for those who were angry...

Marek Hlasko (1934-1969) was een populaire schrijver in post-stalinistisch Polen. Hij was de ‘communistische James Dean’, zowel in uiterlijk als in gedrag – toen hij in 1958 Polen verliet, kreeg hij geen toestemming om terug te keren. Hij leefde daarna in West-Europa, de VS en Israël. Hij was...

"Hlasko was an original. His novels were fearless, his vision unsparing, and decades later, his darkly brilliant work has lost none of its power to unsettle. He achieved what few other writers ever have: he turned the literary landscape into a much more interesting place than it was when he found...

“History has no use for witnesses.” When Marek Hłasko sent this novel to publishers in Poland in the mid-1950s, it was uniformly rejected. When he asked why, he was told: “This Poland doesn’t exist.” Long out of print, The Graveyard is Hłasko’s portrait of a system built...