by Andrzej Szczypiorski · Diogenes · tapa dura · ISBN 9783257060270
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«Selbstportrait mit Frau» is the literary novel by Polish writer Andrzej Szczypiorski, published by Diogenes in hardcover (251 pages, in German).
A sociologist from Warsaw named Kamil travels to Geneva to take part in an oral history project on the collapse of communism; there the journalist Ruth Gless interviews him as he reconstructs his life through the women he loved, and between them a love story emerges that confronts two worlds.
The novel originally appeared in 1994 under the title «Autoportret z kobietą»; this German edition is a translation by Klaus Staemmler.
For readers of literary fiction interested in twentieth-century Polish literature and love stories with a historical and political backdrop.
Andrzej Szczypiorski was a Polish novelist and politician. He served as a member of the Polish legislature, and was a Solidarity activist interned during the military crackdown of 1981. He was a secret police agent in the 1950s.
