Dallas Public Library

Dukla, Andrzej Stasiuk ; translated and with an introduction by Bill Johnston

eng

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

no index present

fiction

Dukla

711051697

Andrzej Stasiuk ; translated and with an introduction by Bill Johnston

Polish literature series

"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