A01=Marek Hlasko
Author_Marek Hlasko
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Product details
- ISBN 9780875804774
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 2013
- Publisher: Cornell University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Beautiful Twentysomethings is a vivid firsthand account of the life of Marek Hlasko, a young writer whose iconoclastic way of life became an inspiration in 1950s Poland. Detailing relationships with such giants of Polish culture as the filmmaker Roman Polanski and the novelist Jerzy Andrzejewski, this memoir recounts his adventures and misadventures abroad in the postwar era. When he was recalled to Poland in 1958, Hlasko refused to return and was stripped of his Polish citizenship. He spent the rest of his life working in exile. A fascinating portrait from the short-lived rebel generation, Ross Ufberg deftly renders Hlasko's wry and passionate voice with grit and a morbid humor.
Marek Hlasko (1934-69) was a writer and a famous figure in postwar Polish literature. Ross Ufberg is the translator and editor, with Yasha Klots, of Memoir of a Gulag Actress by Tamara Petkevich, also published by Northern Illinois University Press.
