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Drwal
Hovedpersonen er den halvkendte forfatter Michał Witkowski, der tager ud til en hytte i en skov ved Østersøkysten for at skrive en krimi. Der er noget mystisk ved hans vært, og amatørdetektiven Michał sætter sig for at opklare, hvad der skete for mange år siden på det nærliggende, nedlagte feriested. Forfatterens første kriminalroman, fuld af humor og selvironi
Lovetown
Growing up queer in a Communist state, queens Patricia and Lucretia spent the '70s and '80s underground, finding glamour in the squalor, strutting their stuff in parks and public toilets, seducing hard Soviet soldiers, preying on drunks and seeing their friends die of Aids. Today they're about to hit Lovetown, a homo-haven, populated by a younger generation of emancipated gays, who are out and proud in their post-Communist paradise: suntanned, sculpted and vigorously spending the pink euro.This is the story of the clash between old and new gays - the clapped out queens and the flashy fags - as they meet in a place where anything goes, but some things have also been lost.
Eleven-Inch
What does it take to succeed as a queer teenage Eastern European sex worker in the 1990s? Eleven inches and a ruthless attitude. Western Europe, shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall: Two queer teens from Eastern Europe journey to Vienna, then Zurich, in search of a better life as sex workers. They couldn't be more different from each other. Milan, aka Dianka, a dreamy, passive naïf from Slovakia, drifts haplessly from one abusive sugar daddy to the next, whereas Michał, a sanguine pleasure-seeker from Poland, quickly masters the selfishness and ruthlessness that allow him to succeed in the wild, capitalist West--all the while taking advantage of the physical endowment for which he is dubbed "Eleven-Inch." By turns impoverished and flush with their earnings, the two traverse a precarious new world of hustler bars, public toilets, and nights spent sleeping in train stations and parks or in the opulent homes of their wealthy clients. With campy wit and sensuous humor, Michał Witkowski explores in Eleven-Inch the transition from Soviet-style communism to neoliberal capitalism in Europe through the experiences of the most marginalized: destitute queers.
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El llenyater
La primera novel·la negra queer de l'actual estrella de la literatura polonesa. Al final de la tardor, el protagonista i narrador, Michal Witkowski, es retira a un resort turístic de platja, totalment solitari fora de temporada, per escriure la novel·la que li proporcionarà diners, fama i tots els premis literaris. S'allotja en una petita casa enmig del bosc però li costa avançar en el llibre, ja que la seva atenció se centra en el seu amfitrió Robert "el llenyater" qui en realitat és un músic depressiu de mitjana edat. Michal, intrigat amb aquest personatge i seguint la pista d'una fotografia, inicia una investigació que el conduirà a un antic centre d'oci de l'època comunista i a l'oblidat cas de la desaparició d'una bellesa local. D'una forma d'allò més excèntrica i amb la col·laboració dels arquetípics i grisos personatges que es va trobant, Michal indaga en el passat d' "el llenyater".
Restless
It is 1939. Eva Delectorskaya is a beautiful 28-year-old Russian émigrée living in Paris. As war breaks out she is recruited for the British Secret Service by Lucas Romer, a mysterious Englishman, and under his tutelage she learns to become the perfect spy, to mask her emotions and trust no one, including those she loves most. Since the war, Eva has carefully rebuilt her life as a typically English wife and mother. But once a spy, always a spy. Now she must complete one final assignment, and this time Eva can't do it alone: she needs her daughter's help.
Languages – Cultures – Worldviews
This edited book explores languages and cultures (or linguacultures) from a translation perspective, resting on the assumption that they find expression as linguacultural worldviews. Specifically, it investigates how these worldviews emerge, how they are constructed, shaped and modified in and through translation, understood both as a process and a product. The book’s content progresses from general to specific: from the notions of worldview and translation, through a consideration of how worldviews are shaped in and through language, to a discussion of worldviews in translation, both in macro-scale and in specific details of language structure and use. The contributors to the volume are linguists, linguistic anthropologists, practising translators, and/or translation studies scholars, and the book will be of interest to scholars and students in any of these fields.
Margot
Om den kvindelige lastbilchauffør Margot og den nye elite af "kendte" mennesker. En fortælling om Polen, der undergår en voldsom forandring, hvilket har indflydelse på tro, vaner, behov og valg.
Narratives of fear and safety
The essays in this edited volume, written in English and French, tackle the intriguing problems of fear and safety by analysing their various meanings and manifestations in literature and other narrative media. The articles bring forth new, cross-cultural interpretations on fear and safety through examining what kinds of genre-specific means of world-making narratives use to express these two affectivities. The articles also show how important it is to study these themes in order to understand challenges in times of global threats, such as the climate crisis. The main themes of the book are approached from various theoretical perspectives as related to their literary and cultural representat...
