Konwicki, Tadeusz (Vol. 8) - Konwicki, Tadeusz 1926–
Konwicki, Tadeusz 1926–
Konwicki is a Polish novelist, short story writer, and film director. Although he has written many novels, he is known to an English-language audience on the basis of a single translated work, A Dreambook for Our Time. This novel, with its continuous flashbacks, nightmarish images, and shifting realities, is a terrifying study of a war-shattered mind.
[Neither] Konwicki nor his novel [Wladza (The Power)] differ in any significant way from the clichés of socialist-realist fiction produced on a mass scale in Poland in the early 1950s and modeled on Soviet novels of the same period. Despite the fact that Wladza was never finished, it won the [State Prize] and was most favorably reviewed by the critics, who encouraged the young author to continue along the same path, which brought success for political rather than artistic accomplishment. (pp. 485-86)
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