Waiting for the Dog to Sleep by Jerzy Ficowski

Waiting for the Dog to Sleep by Jerzy Ficowski

Fiction. Translated from the Polish by Soren Gauger and Marcin Piekoszewski. Born in 1924 in Warsaw, Jerzy Ficowski is primarily known for his work on Bruno Schulz (Regions of the Great Heresy) and his poetry. Not having belonged to any literary school or circle, he occupies a peculiar place in Polish literature, and in these short stories and sketches he takes Schulz1s mythologization of reality, whereby fiction is a way of turning the quotidian into the fantastical and eternal, and reinterprets it to address the sense of loss and bleak landscape of postwar Poland. Effortlessly weaving memory, religious ritual, daily life, and the magical, Ficowski hints at a sinister presence lurking behind these dreamlike tales--a trace of ruin or disintegration always present as the narrator repeatedly struggles to link some aspect of a past that has been annihilated with a present that is foreign and hostile.

Jerzy Ficowski, the author, was born in Warschau in 1924. He was a member of the Warschauer Aufstand in 1944 and is regarded as one of Poland's foremost historians and folklorists of the Zigeuner people. He has also been interested in the relationship between Polish and Jewish culture as a poet, essayist, and Ubersetzer. In his home country, he was a member of the democratic opposition in the 1980s.

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ISBN 13	9788086264240
ISBN 10	8086264246
Title	Waiting for the Dog to Sleep
Author	Jerzy Ficowski
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Twisted Spoon Press
Year published	2007-02-20
Number of pages	188
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