His Current Woman - Couverture souple

Pilch, Jerzy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0810119188 ISBN 13 : 9780810119185

Editeur : Northwestern University Press, 2002

Synopsis

The comic misadventures of a philanderer and the angry lover in his attic; Dr. Pawel Kohoutek, veterinarian and womanizer, looks out the window one morning to see his mistress approaching his house. That's bad. She is hauling her suitcase (containing her books) and her backpack (containing everything else she owns). That's worse. So Kohoutek does the only thing he can: He hides his current woman in the attic of the family slaughterhouse. Farce ensues as Kohoutek attempts to hide the woman from his eccentric family, the family's lodgers, and various offbeat visitors. The woman, expecting love and children and a future, does not make things easy. As he frantically runs around trying to keep her a secret, Kohoutek's memories - mostly involuntary and (in true postmodern fashion) of questionable accuracy - reveal in hilarious detail the life and crises of a hapless libertine and the forces that created him. A bestseller in the author's native Poland, His Current Woman is a delightful comedy of manners and of what often passes for love.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jerzy Pilch has been called the "hope of young Polish prose" by Czeslaw Milosz. He is the author of several novels. His Current Woman is his first novel to be translated into English. He lives in Warsaw.

Bill Johnson is an assistant professor at Indiana University. His recent translations include Stefan Żeromski's The Faithful River and Boleslaw Prus's The Sins of Childhood and Other Stories, both published by Northwestern University Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Northwestern University Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0810119188
• ISBN 13: 9780810119185
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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