The Graveyard (Neversink)

The Graveyard (Neversink)
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â€œHistory has no use for witnesses.â€

When Marek HÅ‚asko sent this novel to publishers in Poland in the mid-1950s, it was uniformly rejected. When he asked why, he was told: â€œThis Poland doesnâ€™t exist.â€

Long out of print, The Graveyard is HÅ‚askoâ€™s portrait of a system built on such denial and willful blindness. Factory worker Franciszek Kowalski is on his way home one evening after drinking with an old friend from the Peopleâ€™s Army when he unthinkingly yells some insults at a policeman. His outburst is taken as criticism of the government, and he is arrested and then expelled from the Party.

Kowalski attempts to rehabilitate himself by gathering testimonies from the men he had fought alongside, but each meeting with his former comrades takes him further into the underworld that he realizes has been there all along.

Written midway through HÅ‚askoâ€™s meteoric career, The Graveyard set its author and the Polish Communist government implacably against each other, and itâ€™s easy to see why: HÅ‚asko pulls no punches in portraying a regime that is maintained by constant surveillance, intimidation, and profound psychological manipulation.

A classic novel of political disillusionment from one of Polandâ€™s seminal writers, an original â€œAngry Young Manâ€ who lived fast, died young, and wrote brilliantly.
Country USA
Brand Melville House
Manufacturer Melville House
Binding Paperback
Color Red
ReleaseDate 2013-12-03
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781612192949

Country	USA
Brand	Melville House
Manufacturer	Melville House
Binding	Paperback
Color	Red
ReleaseDate	2013-12-03
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781612192949

The Graveyard (Neversink)

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