"Madame is a novel about Poland during the grim years of Soviet-controlled mediocrity which nonetheless sparkles with light and warmth." "Our young narrator-hero is suffering through the regulated boredom of high school when he is transfixed by a new teacher - an elegant "older woman" (she is thirty-two) who bewitches …
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"Madame is a novel about Poland during the grim years of Soviet-controlled mediocrity which nonetheless sparkles with light and warmth." "Our young narrator-hero is suffering through the regulated boredom of high school when he is transfixed by a new teacher - an elegant "older woman" (she is thirty-two) who bewitches him with her glacial beauty and her strict intelligence. He resolves to learn everything he can about her and to win her heart.".
"In a sequence of marvelously funny but sobering maneuvers, he finds out much more than he expected - about politics, Poland, and the Spanish Civil War, and his own passion for theater and art - all while his loved one continues to elude him. Yet without his realizing it, his efforts - largely bookish and literary - to close in on Madame are his first steps to liberation as an artist.
Later, during a stint as a teacher-in-training in his old school, he discovers that he himself has become a legendary figure to a new generation of students, and he begins to understand the deceits and blessings of myth, and its redemptive power."--BOOK JACKET.
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Madame
Paperback, 448 pages
Published by Canongate Books Ltd.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-84195-227-7Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 48417062
Madame
Paperback, 438 pages
English language
Published by Canongate U.S..
- ISBN:
- 978-1-84195-520-9Copied ISBN!
Madame
439 pages
English language
Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux (T).
- ISBN:
- 978-0-374-20006-0Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 43118208
Madame
Paperback
Polish language
Published 2005 by Znak Proza.
- ISBN:
- 978-83-240-0429-4Copied ISBN!
Madame
392 pages
Polish language
Published 1999 by Znak.
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