Farewells to Plasma (Short Stories) - Softcover

Goerke, Natasza

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8086264157 ISBN 13: 9788086264158

Publisher: Twisted Spoon Press, 2001

Synopsis

Fiction. Few Polish prose writers of the past ten years have attracted as much delight and bewilderment as Natasza Goerke. Her stories, which are commonly fastened with predicates like "surreal," "grotesque," "ludicrous," "ironic," and "extravagant," call to mind the absurdist and parabolic work of Daniil Kharms, Slawomir, Mrozek, Clarice Lispector, and Antonio Tabucchi. FAREWELLS TO PLASMA is a selection of Goerke's short stories and prose from her three volumes in Polish "The transgression and abolition of borders, the permeation of East and West, tradition and modernity, dream and reality - these are the narrative coordinates of Goerke's universe, teeming with those who are wandering, searching, yearning - and, chiefly, loving"-S?ddeutsche Zeitung.

About this title

About the Author:

Natasza Goerke is a representative of the bruLion generation in Polish literature, one of the freshest talents to emerge in recent years. She was born in Pozan, Poland, in 1960, and studied Polish and Oriental languages at university. She has published three books in Polish and one collection in German translation. Her stories have appeared in numerous Polish magazines and in Slovenian, Macedonian, Serbian, German and English anthologies (The Eagle and the Crow, Serpent's Tail--UK, 1996). In 1993 she received the Czas Kultury Prize; in 1995 she won a six-month stipend to the prestigious Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, the only Polish writer to receive this distinction. She currently lives in Hamburg, Germany.

Review:

Delightfully extravagant, ludicrous stories that see this world so fiercely and clearly, they see past it. -- Christine Hume

Goerke has emerged as an elusive and subversive talent, troublesome and difficult to classify. -- Grazyna Borkowska, Kresy

Goerke has emerged as an elusive and subversive talent, troublesome and difficult to classify. -- Grazyna Borkowska, Kresy

Goerke has emerged as an elusive and subversive talent, troublesome and difficult to classify. -- Grazyna Borkowska, Kresy

Goerke writes with verve on all shape and variety of topics. Her characters are travelers, fortune tellers, masochists, talking shadows. -- Rain Taxi

Her stories knocked me out ... A wailing new voice that can't be mistaken for anyone else's. -- Bill Bathhurst, Radio Prague

Natasza Goerke is writing ... a prose that moves ... with a Chekhovian obliquity: in one stroke idiomatic, sensitive, and aloof. -- Christopher Middleton

Natasza Goerke writes intricately constructed short texts that leaves one upon reading them with a wonderful sensation of release ... -- David Werner, Tages-Anzeiger, September 26, 2000

The transgression and abolition of borders, the permeation of tradition and modernity, dream and reality - these are the coordinates of Goerke's universe ... -- Süddeutsche Zeitung, August 5, 2000

About this edition

• Publisher: Twisted Spoon Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 8086264157
• ISBN 13: 9788086264158
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 140