„Smak męskiej przygody” czyli Przewóz Andrzeja Stasiuka
“The taste of a man’s adventure” or Przewóz by Andrzej Stasiuk

Summary/Abstract: Przewóz (Transit) is a novel dominated by the Bug river – we flow down its stream as the story flows onward. The narrative interweaves many strands, the motif of the ferryman – the boatman named Lubko, and his customers from 1941 is complemented by the memories of the narrator, who is an autobiographic creation here. The novel’s wartime events (June of 1941) are located by the author in his native Polesie, where he spent his childhood holidays at his grandparents’ house. On the one side are Russians, on the other – Germans, who are running away, crossing the Bug by a pontoon bridge, while the swamp by the river swarms with Home Army soldiers, refugees, Jewish siblings… Chaos, darkness, tense waiting for an invitation to the boat. Any moment now the Bug will become the Styx, and Lubko will be transformed into Charon.

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