Szczepański's book consists of five stories presenting an attempt to come to terms with history and life...
Szczepański's book consists of five stories presenting an attempt to come to terms with history and life - about underground combatants who are forced to retreat from a fighting Warsaw; about a German criminal and erstwhile Auschwitz kapo who flees and joins a group of Polish underground combatants pretending to be an Australian and wanting to be on the right side; about parents who are not coping very well with the upbringing of their Satanist son.... The author confronts his characters with the difficult moral choices of the period of the World War II and wartime occupation, the post-war period, and the recent years of the 20th century, allowing his reader to follow the unpredictable affairs of individuals involved in history and politics; he is invariably striking for his simplicity and classically graceful style.
Jan Józef Szczepański (b. 1919) writer and essayist, reportage- and script-writer, literary translator from English and French into Polish.
- Jan Józef Szczepański
The Fields / Rozłogi
Wydawnictwo Literackie, Kraków 2001
translation rights: Jan Józef Szczepański, rights available
123 x 197, 100 pages, paperback
ISBN 83-08-03102-1