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Poetic, witty, and faintly surreal, Sefer delicately explores the legacy of the Holocaust for the postwar generation. The novel's protagonist, Jan Sefer, is a psychotherapist living in Vienna who finally addresses his own family background during a long postponed visit to Kraków, his father's birthplace. Much like memory itself, Sefir speaks to us obliquely, through the juxtapositioin of images and vignettes. In their translation of Ewa Lipska's first novel, Barbara Bogoczek and Tony Howard deftly capture the poet's unmistakable voice - cool and precise, gently ironic, and deeply humane.
Born in 1945 in Kraków, Ewa Lipska is one of Poland's best-known poets. She cofounded and was for many years the poetry editor of the literary magazine Pismo, and has been recognized with the Pen Club Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement among other honors. Barbara Bogoczek, based in London, and Tony Howard, professor of English at Warwick University in Coventry, have together translated a number of works by Polish authors.
Born in 1945 in Kraków, Ewa Lipska is one of Poland's best-known poets. She cofounded and was for many years the poetry editor of the literary magazine Pismo, and has been recognized with the Pen Club Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement among other honors. Barbara Bogoczek, based in London, and Tony Howard, professor of English at Warwick University in Coventry, have together translated a number of works by Polish authors.
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Poetic, witty, and ever so faintly surreal, Sefer delicatelyexplores the legacy of the Holocaust for the postwar generation, ageneration for whom a devastating history has grown distant, bothtemporally and emotionally. The novel's protagonist, Jan Sefer,is a psychotherapist living in Vienna--someone whose professionallife puts him in daily contact with the traumas of others but who hasfound it difficult to address his own family background, especially hismemories of his father. With its fragmentary structure and itspreference for hints rather than explanations, the novel belongs to therealm of the postmodern, while it also incorporates subtle elements ofmagical realism.
About the Author:
Ewa Lipska was for many yearsthe poetry editor of the literary magazine Pismo, which she co-founded,and was active in Poland's Nowa Fala, or New Wave. Her manyprizes include the Koscielski Fund Award, the Robert Graves Pen ClubAward, and Pen Club Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement. Her poetryhas been widely translated, into Hebrew as well as into Europeanlanguages. Barbara Bogoczek is a freelance translatorand interpreter based in London. Tony Howard isprofessor of English at Warwick University. Together they havetranslated works by numerous Polish authors--Ewa Lipska, TadeuszRózewicz, Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska, Hanna Krall, and manyothers--into English.
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- PublisherAthabasca University Press
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1927356024
- ISBN 13 9781927356029
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages156
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