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Beautiful Twentysomethings Paperback – October 1, 2013

by Marek Hlasko (Author), Ross Ufberg (Translator), Jaroslaw Anders (Foreword)

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Marek Hlasko's literary autobiography is a vivid, first-hand account of the life of a young writer in 1950s Poland and a fascinating portrait of the ultimately short-lived rebel generation. Told in a voice suffused with grit and morbid humor, Hlasko's memoir was a classic of its time. In it he recounts his adventures and misadventures, moving swiftly from one tale to the next. Like many writers of his time, Hlasko also worked in screen writing, and his memoir provides a glimpse into just how markedly the medium of film affected him from his very earliest writing days.

The memoir details his relationships with such giants of Polish culture as the filmmaker Roman Polanski and the novelist Jerzy Andrzejewski. Hlasko is the most prominent example of a writer who broke free from the Socialist-Realist formulae that dominated the literary scene in Poland since it fell under the influence of the Soviets. He made his literary debut in 1956 and immediately became a poster boy for Polish Literature. He subsequently worked at some of the most important newspapers and magazines for intellectual life in Warsaw.

Hlasko was sent to Paris on an official mission in 1958, but when he published in an émigré Parisian press his novel of life in post-War Poland, he was denied a renewal of his passport. In effect, he was called back to Poland, and when he refused to return he was stripped of his Polish citizenship. He spent the rest of his life working in exile. Marek Hlasko was a rebel whose writing and iconoclastic way of life became an inspiration to those of his generation and after. Here, in the first English translation of his literary memoir, Ross Ufberg deftly renders Hlasko’s wry and passionate voice.

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Paperback: 232 pages
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press; 1 edition (October 1, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 087580697X
ISBN-13: 978-0875806976
Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 0.7 x 8.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,360,575 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Fascinating glimpse of Poland in the fifties

By Kindle Customer on December 6, 2013

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This book will be primarily of interest to three groups of readers: 1) people who have read Hlasko's novels, especially those that have been translated into English; 2) historians interested in the post-Stalinist period in East Central Europe; 3) Slavicists, especially Polonists. For those readers, this is a great book; its only flaws are its lack of an index and the fact that in the ebook the terms in the glossary aren't hyperlinked.

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Rough and not too interesting

By No drums no bugles on September 10, 2014

Format: Paperback

This book is Hlasko’s partial autobiography. Born in 1932 in Poland, he grew up in the terror and devastation of World War II and came of age in Communist Poland as designed and enforced by Stalin and his local minions. Highly sensitive and high strung, he was a born rebel, literary and artistic, and seemingly incapable of thriving in Poland of the 1950s, instead eking out an existence even as he gained some recognition for his early writings.

This book is very rough and not too interesting; it does not compare with the works of Milosz or Kosinski whom Hlasko refers to in the text. It seems his life was poisoned by the evil of the times that he grew up and lived in as a young man. He simply could not overcome this and go on to a fuller life.