Wieslaw Mysliwski, trans. from the Polish by Bill Johnston, Archipelago (Consortium, dist.), $20 trade paper (534p) ISBN 978-0-9826246-2-3
Like a more agrarian Beckett, a less gothic Faulkner, a slightly warmer Laxness, Mysliwski masterfully renders in Johnston's gorgeous translation (Mysliwski's first into English) life in a Polish farming village before and after WWII through the...
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Wiesław Mys´liwski, trans. from the Polish by Bill Johnson. Archipelago (Consortium, dist.), $22 (450p) ISBN 978-1-935744-90-0
This novel from Mys´liwski (Stone Upon Stone) describes an unremarkable life in exhaustive detail; the result is about as exciting as its title implies. The unnamed narrator has returned to the area in Poland where he was born and raised. When...
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Wieslaw Mysliwski, Author, Wies1aw Mybsliwski, Author, Ursula Phillips, Translator Peter Owen Publishers $35.95 (200p) ISBN 978-0-7206-0790-1
Originally published to acclaim in the author's native Poland in 1970 and made into a movie there, this novel is in some ways dated. The narrator, a Polish shepherd called Jacob, is deliberately a cipher, serving as a Polish everyman. After a...
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Wieslaw Myśliwski, trans. from the Polish by Bill Johnston. Archipelago, $25 (396p) ISBN 978-1-962770-39-2
The labyrinthine latest by Myśliwski (A Treatise on Shelling Beans) reckons with mortality and Polish history. The unnamed narrator, a young man employed in a canning factory not long after WWII, is out on the street in his hometown of Sandomierz....
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