This is the novel from Lech Majewski - poet and novelist, painter, composer, screenwriter, and theatre and film director (e.g. "Wojaczek", "Angelus"). It is a moving, timeless tale of love...
This is the newest novel from Lech Majewski - poet and novelist, painter, composer, screenwriter, and theatre and film director (e.g. Wojaczek, Angelus). It is a moving, timeless tale of love set in Venice, to which both the main characters of the story, Luis (a ship's engineer and loner immersed in the world of symmetry and arithmetic) and Bea (a young Italian woman with a fascination for the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch, Medieval alchemy, and the meaning of symbols), are visitors. It contains everything that might even slightly intrigue readers of contemporary literature - love and death, an obsessive fascination for art, reflections on finding one's place in the world and the meaning of one's life in contemporary times. The novel is written as the monologue of a man who is suddenly shocked by loneliness and attempts to identify and speak the truth about his own life and that of Bea.
"Lech Majewski could easily be a member of the de Medicis' Neoplatonic Academy. Always traveling, exploring, he seeks to retain a feeling of freedom above all and thus traverses both various countries and various realms of art. His creations include paintings, stage productions, films, books, installations, and operas, and he has worked in the United States, Brazil, England, his native Poland, Germany, Lithuania, and in Italy. He builds his visions from primal meanings that are often hidden, and require an esoteric knowledge to decipher, and this he does in an age that is an enemy to contemplation, an enemy to the tradition of reading symbols. In times that seem only to promote speed, efficacy, and market potential, his works immerse us in murky depths, in the thickening substance of mystery, as they themselves are a voyage into the unknown." (Paul Langham)
- Lech Majewski
Metafizyka / Metaphysics
Publisher: Wydawnictwo Literackie, Kraków 2002
125 x 198, 149 pages,
Published in the form of a pamphlet
ISBN 83-08-03227-3
www.wl.net.pl