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The Graveyard

The Graveyard


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"History has no use for witnesses."

When Marek Hlasko sent this novel to publishers in Poland in the mid-1950s, it was uniformly rejected. When he asked why, he was told: "This Poland doesn't exist."

Long out of print, The Graveyard is Hlasko's portrait of a system built on such denial and willful blindness. Factory worker Franciszek Kowalski is on his way home one evening after drinking with an old friend from the People's Army when he unthinkingly yells some insults at a policeman. His outburst is taken as criticism of the government, and he is arrested and then expelled from the Party.

Kowalski attempts to rehabilitate himself by gathering testimonies from the men he had fought alongside, but each meeting with his former comrades takes him further into the underworld that he realizes has been there all along.

Written midway through Hlasko's meteoric career, The Graveyard set its author and the Polish Communist government implacably against each other, and it's easy to see why: Hlasko pulls no punches in portraying a regime that is maintained by constant surveillance, intimidation, and profound psychological manipulation.

A classic novel of political disillusionment from one of Poland's seminal writers, an original "Angry Young Man" who lived fast, died young, and wrote brilliantly.
About the Author: Marek Hlasko (1934-1969) was born in Warsaw, the only child of parents who divorced when he was three. He was kicked out of high school and worked a series of menial jobs. While a truck driver, he began to write articles for a local newspaper, and soon after joined the crusading magazine Po Prostu as the editor of the literary section. In 1956, his short story collection A First Step in the Clouds won him immediate acclaim. It was followed by The Eighth Day of the Week, and two other novels, The Graveyard and Next Stop--Paradise. But when publishers refused to bring out his books, Hlasko traveled to Paris and published them in the émigré journal Kultura. It was a fateful decision: the Polish authorities gave him the choice of returning home and renouncing his work or staying abroad forever. He chose the latter, and spent the rest of his life in Western Europe, Israel, and the United States. He developed a reputation as a hard drinker and brawler, and was often in and out of prisons and psychiatric clinics. In 1966, Roman Polanski brought Hlasko to Hollywood to work as a screenwriter, but while there, he got into a fight with the composer Krzysztof Komeda, who died from his injuries a few days later. Six months afterward, Hlasko died from a fatal mixture of alcohol and sleeping pills. He was thirty-five years old and the author of ten novels, several collections of short stories and essays, and a memoir.

Norbert Guterman (1900-1984) also translated Hlasko's The Eighth Day of the Week and Next Stop--Paradise.

James Sallis
is the author of Drive and the Lew Griffin series of crime novels, among many other books.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781612192949
  • Publisher: Melville House Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Melville House Publishing
  • Depth: 13
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Width: 127 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1612192947
  • Publisher Date: 03 Dec 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 201 mm
  • No of Pages: 140
  • Series Title: Neversink Library
  • Weight: 186 gr


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