A01=Jozef Lobodowski
Author_Jozef Lobodowski
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Coming of age
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forthcoming
Polish historical fiction
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- ISBN 9789633869505
- Dimensions: 135 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 2026
- Publisher: Central European University Press
- Publication City/Country: HU
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Road Home is the third volume of Polish poet and novelist Józef Lobodowski’s Ukrainian Trilogy, written between 1955 and 1960. Stas Majewski, the teenage hero of the Ukrainian Trilogy, returns to his family home after the turbulent events of the earlier volumes, only to encounter a world transformed by war, revolution, and displacement. Separated from his family and forced into a harsh struggle for survival, he begins a difficult journey across the borderlands of the former empire toward the newly reborn Poland.
Set amid the violence and social disintegration of the revolutionary period, there is no hatred in Lobodowski's work. Instead, it offers a vivid and nuanced portrayal of the Kuban, a multinational area in the northwestern Caucasus near the Sea of Azov, as a landscape where brutality and compassion coexist. Within spaces marked by deprivation and upheaval, bonds of loyalty, honor, and care emerge in unexpected ways, and strangers become protectors and guides.This volume presents a powerful meditation on endurance, identity, and the persistence of humanity in an age of collapse.
Set amid the violence and social disintegration of the revolutionary period, there is no hatred in Lobodowski's work. Instead, it offers a vivid and nuanced portrayal of the Kuban, a multinational area in the northwestern Caucasus near the Sea of Azov, as a landscape where brutality and compassion coexist. Within spaces marked by deprivation and upheaval, bonds of loyalty, honor, and care emerge in unexpected ways, and strangers become protectors and guides.This volume presents a powerful meditation on endurance, identity, and the persistence of humanity in an age of collapse.
Józef Lobodowski (1909–1988) was born into a Polish family at a time when the Polish state did not exist on the political map of Europe. Since 1795, the Third Partition of Poland, his homeland had been divided between the empires of Russia, Prussia, and Austria. Lobodowski’s life itself reflects the history of Poland in all its glory and wretchedness. The son of a colonel in the Tsarist army, he entered the world near Kaunas, in present-day Lithuania. Because of his father’s career, he and his family moved to Lublin, then to Moscow, and then to the Kuban, the setting of his most famous works in prose. .obodowski’s life and writing embody the turbulence, resilience, and contradictions of modern Polish history.
