 | | Publisher: Krakowska Alternatywa/Ha!art
Kraków 2001
© Piotr Cegiełka
139 x 200
128 pages
paperback
ISBN 83-914748-3-6
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Piotr CegiełkaA Zander in Amber
Excerpt
A Zander in Amber is a collection of seven quite long stories. The title itself is deliberately not related to any of them, and is a good example of the sense of the absurd, in the style of Beckett or Ionesco (cf. The Bald Primadonna), that has been Cegiełka’s inspiration in this work, and not just in composing its title. Most of these stories are written almost entirely (and in the case of the story entitled Crows, entirely) in the form of nightmare horror. They all start realistically, but it soon turns out that the fate of the hero (usually the same young man who smokes cigarettes by the ton) is burdened by some sort of bad luck, and that some organisation is hatching a cunning plot against him. However, our curiosity (we keep asking ourselves who? what plot? etc) is never to be satisfied, just as we shall never know why and by whom Joseph K. was being tried.
Michał Witkowski
Piotr Cegiełka (born 1978) is a prose writer and playwright. He was the winner of the first Stanisław Czycz prize (awarded in Kraków 2001, as part of the “Tekstylia” festival). He lives in Płock, where he is studying Polish philology.
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