Manuela Gretkowska is regarded as the most scandalous woman writer in contemporary Poland. In this new collection of short stories, her characteristic essay-like narrative style gives way to a bent for telling stories. The author and her characters interpret the nature of postmodernist reality.
The Passionary is strongly erotic text with female narrator. It contains a beatiful description of the sexual act. In the last couple of stories Gretkowska's essay temperament gives way to the spirit of story telling.
Adventures of the body and the spirit (Zycie Warszawy)
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