Volume 29, Number 3 · March 4, 1982
The Polish Wake
By Jaroslaw Anders
The Polish Complex
by Tadeusz Konwicki, translated by Richard Lourie
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 211 pp., $12.95
When in 1977 a group of Polish dissidents managed to establish a semiclandestine publishing network called 'Nowa,' Tadeusz Konwicki was one of the first writers to send them a manuscript—his new novel The Polish Complex, now published in English translation. This book, soon followed by Konwicki's The Little Apocalypse,[*] became one of the major events of the Polish 'alternative' cultural life that started to flourish after the formation of the Committee for the Defense of Workers (KOR) and other informal dissent groups. It also opened the road for others, who after the years of intimidation by state control of ideas and of artistic expression decided to defy the censors by writing for unofficial presses.
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