The Polish Review, Volume 19Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America., 1974 - Poland |
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Page 182
... Painted Bird , the author succeeds , despite the frag- mentary , highly episodic structure , in creating a unique , self - contained world which is not quite real , though not quite fictitious either . As in Kafka , the cumulative ...
... Painted Bird , the author succeeds , despite the frag- mentary , highly episodic structure , in creating a unique , self - contained world which is not quite real , though not quite fictitious either . As in Kafka , the cumulative ...
Page 185
... Painted Bird describes his ex- periences in church , he invokes the magical - sounding names of all the holy objects : the paten , the humeral veil , the alb , the maniple , the chas- ubles , etc. When he is hurled into a manure pit by ...
... Painted Bird describes his ex- periences in church , he invokes the magical - sounding names of all the holy objects : the paten , the humeral veil , the alb , the maniple , the chas- ubles , etc. When he is hurled into a manure pit by ...
Page 187
... Painted Bird ] was ... a searing document of humanity , or whether the real horrors of Nazi - occupied Europe had somehow served as the occasion for the excesses of a peculiarly sadistic imagination . ' " 18 And Alfred Kazin remarks ...
... Painted Bird ] was ... a searing document of humanity , or whether the real horrors of Nazi - occupied Europe had somehow served as the occasion for the excesses of a peculiarly sadistic imagination . ' " 18 And Alfred Kazin remarks ...
Contents
SOME DISTINCTIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF | 41 |
Stanisław Lem Solaris | 96 |
Listy do Delfiny | 103 |
Copyright | |
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