Past Continuous: A Novel
Past Continuous: A Novel

Summary/Abstract: Bronisław Wildstein is a contemporary Polish novelist and journalist. A former dissident engaged with the Solidarity labor movement, he is the recipient of many prizes including the highest award of the Republic of Poland: the Order of the White Eagle (2016). The opening pages of his novel Past Continuous (Czas niedokonany, 2011) initiate the major plot lines of the novel, a work that is autobiographical yet at the same time expresses better than any other work of fiction the societal dilemmas of late communism and postcommunism. Past Continuous, presently being translated into English is a grand narrative that brings to mind Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago and Vasilii Grossman’s Forever Flowing.

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