A Minor Apocalypse (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Tadeusz Konwicki
- First Published: 1979
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Political
- Time of Work: Sometime in the not-too-distant future
- Setting: Poland
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction, Political fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Communism or communists, Politics, Protests or demonstrations, Future, Poland or Polish people, Sacrifice
- Locales: Poland
Characters Discussed
Konwicki (kohn-WIHTS-kih), the narrator. Konwicki is a famous middle-aged writer living in the Polish capital. Like the actual Tadeusz Konwicki, the narrator is an astute observer of the disintegration of Polish culture and its near-total (in this grim fantasy) subjugation to the Russian giant to its east. Unlike the defiant author, however, the fictional Konwicki is, in his own eyes, an aging, largely passive figure whose best work quite likely is behind him. He abhors the suffocating Russian influence and bemoans the ineffectuality that marks Polish...
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