Dukla

Dukla

by Stasiuk, Andrzej

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"At several points in the haunting Dukla, Andrzej Stasiuk claims that what he is trying to do is 'write a book about light.' The result is a beautiful, lyrical series of evocations of a very specific locale at different times of the year, in different kinds of weather, and with different human landscapes. Dukla, in fact, is a real place: a small resort town not far from where Stasiuk now lives. Taking an usual form--a short essay, a novella, and then a series of brief portraits of local people …

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Dukla / Andrzej Stasiuk ; translated and with an introduction by Bill Johnston.

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"At several points in the haunting Dukla, Andrzej Stasiuk claims that what he is trying to do is 'write a book about light.' The result is a beautiful, lyrical series of evocations of a very specific locale at different times of the year, in different kinds of weather, and with different human landscapes. Dukla, in fact, is a real place: a small resort town not far from where Stasiuk now lives. Taking an usual form--a short essay, a novella, and then a series of brief portraits of local people or event--this book, though bordering on the metaphysical, the mystical, even the supernatural, never loses sight of the particular time, and above all place, in which it is rooted"--Page 4 of cover

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2011.
  • Edition:First edition

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Dalkey archive Press
  • Place of Publication:Champaign
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2011.

Notes

"Originally published in Polish as Dukla by Wydawnictwo Czarne, Wolowiec, 1999."

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xi, 184 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781564786944, 1564786943
  • oclc:ocn881280391
  • LC Classification:PG7178.T28
  • Dewey Decimal:891.8/538

Subjects

FICTION -- General Light Light -- Literary collections Literary collections Lumière -- Anthologies Poland Poland -- Literary collections

Writers

Stasiuk, Andrzej Johnston, Bill

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