A Dreambook for Our Time (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Tadeusz Konwicki
- First Published: 1963
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Impressionistic realism
- Time of Work: The 1930’s to the early 1960’s
- Setting: Poland
- Genres: Long fiction, Impressionistic literature
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, Nature, 1940’s, Villages, 1930’s, War, Cults, Poland or Polish people
- Locales: Poland
Characters Discussed
Paul, the narrator, an antihero who wanders Poland in an effort to escape his largely undeserved feelings of guilt, to find some meaning in his life and that of his war-ravaged country, and to awake from the nightmare of his unfinished past that includes the death of his parents and his experiences during the war in the Polish underground. Equating belief with surrender, he remains aloof, struggling to be loyal to himself without having to betray anyone else. The novel begins shortly after his attempted suicide and ends with his leaving the remote Polish...
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