This time Ewa Kuryluk displays her prowess as a translator of correspondence, from and to Roland Barthes. It is an intimate correspondence, which documents the 20th century - an age of ideologies, suspicions, and undercover agents who set erotic traps for political adversaries...
This time Ewa Kuryluk displays her prowess as a translator of correspondence, from and to Roland Barthes, which came into her hands in mysterious circumstances. It is an intimate correspondence, which documents the 20th century - an age of ideologies, suspicions, and undercover agents who set erotic traps for political adversaries. The heroes of one of the book's most fascinating themes are Michel Foucault and Karol Kuryluk, the author's father, who was Minister of Culture in Gomulka's Communist government, and their extraordinary meeting in the Lazienki Park in Warsaw after 1956 - along with the political and erotic consequences neither of them had expected.
Ewa Kuryluk, poet, prose-writer, art critic, installation artist whose works are to be found in over 20 museums all over the world; author of 14 books in Polish and English. She has lectured at the School for Social Research, New York, and at the University of California, San Diego. She lives in New York and Paris.
- Ewa Kuryluk
Encyclopaedia Erotica / Encyklopedierotyk
Wydawnictwo Sic!, Warszawa 2001
translation rights: Sic!, rights available
110 x 200, 216 pages, 19 illustrations, paperback
ISBN 83-86056-99-1