ANDRZEJEWSKI Jerzy
ASH AND DIAMOND
[originally: POPIOL I DIAMENT]
Novel.
First edition!
Warszawa 1948. Czytelnik. 8, p. 334, [1]. brooch Good Book Club, No. 1
"In 1946, Andrzejewski began to write his most famous novel -" Ashes and Diamonds. "At first, starting from the story of a lawyer known for his righteousness, who in a concentration camp became hated by his fellow capos, and after the war he wanted to regain his former place in society, the writer he painted a panorama of Poland just after the war.The novel was dominated by the plot of Maciek Chełmicki, a young soldier of the Home Army, who was ordered to execute the death sentence of the secretary of the Polish Workers' Party. great interest and strong controversy. will get With a clear ideological meaning - Chełmicki was presented with sympathy, but they lacked an optimistic vision of the future of Poland. " Source: www.culture.pl
"" The dominance of the sinister actions of the underground [...] over the arguments of the other party, which either do not speak at all in the novel, or close within the abstract humanitarianism of 'faith in man' (Marcin), or are presented as the reasons of one only doctrines (Szczuka) - it is about the unfair atmosphere of the novel "Melania Kierczyńska in the pages of" Kuźnica "(quoted in: M. Fik" Kultura polska po Yałcie ", London 1989, pp. 95-96).
Andrzejewski accepted these accusations and in a self-criticism published in 1950 entitled "Notes. Confessions and Meditations of the Writer" cut himself off from his earlier works, including "Ashes and Diamonds." The author systematically changed the text of the novel until 1954. Source: www.wikipedia.org.
The book is rare and important because it deals with the difficult topic of the place of recent conspirators in the new, post-war reality.
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