Self-Portrait With Woman

By Andrzej Szczypiorski

Book Overview

Kamil, a Warsaw sociologist, is summoned to Geneva to participate in an oral history project about the collapse of Eastern European communism and resolves to tell his own story through a gallery of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802115675
• ISBN13: 9780802115676
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.0" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Neither Pointless nor Choppy

An excellent novel that explores one man's soul against the dark backdrop of Poland's history. Though a deep portrait of one person, Szczypiorski is universal, and has universal implications. Above all, Kamil vaules his loves, and uses them as reference points in the depths of his soul, and in the darkness of his history. I recommend this novel! It's enjoyable and important. And I did not find it at all choppy. It's lyrical and beautifully written, the author paints a picture of one man, in all his humanity.