Bohin Manor (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Tadeusz Konwicki
- First Published: 1987
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Twentieth century, Psychology or psychologists, Exile or expatriates, Social issues, Emotions, Nationalism, Mysteries, Tragedy, Poland or Polish people
- Locales: Poland
Of living Polish novelists, Tadeusz Konwicki is one of only two whose works are regularly translated into English, the other being the science-fiction writer Stanislaw Lem. In his recent books, Konwicki has been playing with the distinction between author and narrator. In his novels THE POLISH COMPLEX (which appeared in English translation in 1982) and A MINOR APOCALYPSE (1983), the narrator is Konwicki himself, and the events recounted are a mixture of the fantastic and the mundane. This blurring of the line between author and narrator, between the real and the imagined, culminated in...
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