Cardboard Airplane
Impressions from Central Europe, a metaphor of the ›variety of worlds‹: a medial cosmos here, the disposability of each and every possible information, a fallen into decay sanatorium there, a ›Galician Magic Mountain‹.
Andrzej Stasiuk's essays and autobiographic album is not only a mirrot of authors – such as his preferred ones: Beckett, Hrbal and Platonow –, books and films; but also of the celebrated Polish author as a lucid and independent critic of our...Impressions from Central Europe, a metaphor of the ›variety of worlds‹: a medial cosmos here, the disposability of each and every possible information, a fallen into decay sanatorium there, a ›Galician Magic Mountain‹.
Andrzej Stasiuk's essays and autobiographic album is not only a mirrot of authors – such as his preferred ones: Beckett, Hrbal and Platonow –, books and films; but also of the celebrated Polish author as a lucid and independent critic of our contemporary times. Road maps of all kinds and the actual world before our window - this is all he needs to sharpen the perception of contemporary phenomena: the impaired signification of death, the religious surrogates of mass culture, the new boundlessness and nevertheless the paradox of the loss of our sensitivity.
There is a certain melancholy about Stasiuk while he depicts the loss of secrecy in out completely illuminated (or so it seems) world, marked by the omnipresence of the visual. And he recalls the magic of a childhood photography, which may once preserve us from the last, the most awesome solitude. Then, only a cardboard airplance might bring us to heaven.
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Andrzej Stasiuk
Andrzej Stasiuk, born in Warsaw in 1960, has been living in the Beskides since 1986. He writes poems, stories, novels, also works as a journalist and scriptwriter and together with his wife Monika Sznajderman directs the publishing house Czarne located in Wolowiec. He has received numerous literary awards, among them the Samuel Bogumil Linde Prize for Literature (2002), the Nike Prize (Poland, 2005) for Jadąc do Babadag, the Adalbert Stifter Prize (2005), the Vilenica Prize and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature (2016).
Andrzej Stasiuk, born in Warsaw in 1960, has been living in the Beskides since 1986. He writes poems, stories, novels, also works as a...
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Crossing
Spain (Acantilado), France (Actes Sud), Sweden (Ersatz), Croatia (Fraktura), Slovenia (Cankarjeva Založba)
The Beskid Chronicles
Taksim
Spain (Acantilado), Catalan rights (Comanegra), France (Actes Sud), Sweden (Ersatz), Norway (Aschehoug), Slovakia (Slovart), Hungary (Magveto), Croatia (Fraktura), Slovenia (Studentska Zalozba Beletrina)
The East
France (Actes Sud), Sweden (Ersatz), Czech Republic (Kniha Zlin, s. r. o), Slovakia (Slovart), Croatia (Fraktura), Ukraine (Old Lion),
There Are No Expressways on Golden Roads
A declaration of love for untrodden paths and neglected regions, wandering through memories and dreams...
A Short Book about Dying
Spain (Acantilado), France (Actes Sud), Italy (Atmosphere Libri), Hungary (Magveto),
Post-Scriptum Diary
Dojczland
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Fado
Slovenia (Cankarjeva založba)
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On the Road to Babadag
USA (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), Spanish world rights (Quaderns Crema/El Acantilado), Chinese simplex rights (Guangdong Flower City Publishing House), Sweden (Ersatz), Slovakia (Absynt), Turkey (Livera)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: UK (Harvill Secker), Russia (NLO), France (Christian Bourgois), Italy (Bompiani), Netherlands (De Geus), Finland (Like), Hungary (Magvetö), Bulgaria (Paradox), Romania (RAO), Lithuania (Kitos Knygos), Croatia (Fraktura), Serbia (Dereta), Slovenia (Beletrina), Albania (Mesonjetorja)
Winter
Like in Stasiuk’s famous Galician Stories,...
Galician Tales
Spanish world rights (Acantilado), Serbia (Heliks), Ukraine (Old Lion)
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My Europe
Spanish world rights (Acantilado), France (Noir sur Blanc), Italy (print edition Mimesis / digital edition GoWare), Hungary (Kijarat), Bulgaria (Lektura), Romania (Polirom)
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Nine
USA (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), UK (Harvill Secker), Spanish world rights (Acantilado), Italy (Giunti), Amharic (Hohe)
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How I Became a Writer
France (Actes Sud), Ukraine (Discursus)
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Dukla
English world rights (Dalkey Archive), Spanish world rights (Acantilado), Slovenia (Beletrina), Turkey (Livera), Azerbaijan (Alatoran)
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Across the River
The White Raven
UK (Serpent’s Tail), Russia (Azbooka), France (Noir sur Blanc), Italy (Bompiani), Netherlands (De Geus), Finland (Taifuuni), Hungary (Europa), Bulgaria (Paradox), Serbia (Clio)
