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The action of Kuncewiczowa's novel takes place in the Eastern Borderlands. It covers the pre-uprising period, the January Uprising period and the time immediately after its fall. It is not the national liberation struggle that is the main theme of the song - it is the background to show the psychological changes of the characters, to show their problems.

The action takes place in Podolia in the town of Szabasowa and its surroundings in the autumn of 1943. The protagonists are well-known authors, mentioned by their surname or pseudonym, who fight against the Germans and the local Ukrainian police.

This novel, the author's masterpiece, is one of the greatest expressions ever of the tortured intersection of political and personal destinies in Eastern Europe. Futuristic, experimental, and remarkably prophetic, the book traces the adventures of a young Pole whose own fate parallels the collapse of Western civilization following a Chinese communist invasion from the East. Written in 1927, Witkiewicz's novel presages the horrifying anti-utopian society...

The second Isaiah, or Deutero-Isaiah who supposedly lived during the conquest of Babylon by Cyrus the Persian in the fifth century B.C.

A murder in a Polish village revives memories of past murders, including complicity in the killing of Jews during World War II. The protagonist is a young farmer who takes it upon himself to solve a killing in a forest outside the village. A first novel.

After the death of his seventeen-year old son, Max travels back to Warsaw, while his wife stays in South America. There he begins a series of affairs with different women.

"Interesting for its use of the diary form within the main narrative as a means of exploring character."--Encyclopedia Britannica