In a novel set in Soviet-era Poland, a boy is bewitched by his teacher and vows to win her heart, but later, when he becomes a teacher himself, he sees the story from the opposite side of the instructor's desk.

Madame: A Novel

Libera, Antoni

Kolakowska, Agnieszka

Literature & Fiction

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

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Dialogues on Beckett: Whatever Happened to God? (Anthem Studies in Theatre and Performance, 1)

Pyda, Janusz

Dramas & Plays

Anthem Press

The story of a charmingly self-absorbed Polish teenager pursuing his intellectual maturity - and the older woman of his dreams, his French teacher "Madame" - in post-war communist-dominated Warsaw. It explores the experience of a free mind in a repressive culture.

Madame

Contemporary

Canongate Books Ltd.

The comic "sentimental education" of a schoolboy who falls in love with his French teacher. Madame is an unexpected gem: a novel about Poland during the grim years of Soviet-controlled mediocrity, which nonetheless sparkles with light and warmth. Our young narrator-hero is suffering through the regulated boredom of high school when he is transfixed by a new teacher --an elegant "older woman" (she is thirty-two) who bewitches him with her glacial beauty and her strict intelligence. He resolves to learn everything he can about her and to win her heart. In a sequence of marvelously funny but sobering maneuvers, he learns much more than he expected to--about politics, Poland, the Spanish Civil War, and his own passion for theater and art--all while his loved one continues to elude him. Yet without his realizing it, his efforts--largely bookish and literary--to close in on Madame are his first steps to liberation as an artist. Later, during a stint as a teacher-in-training in his old school, he discovers that he himself has become a legendary figure to a new generation of students, and he begins to understand the deceits and blessings of myth, and its redemptive power. A winning portrait of an artist as a young man, Madame is at the same time a moving, engaging novel about strength and weakness, first love, and the efforts we make to reconcile, in art, the opposing forces of reason and passion.

Literary

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MADAME

Buchet/Chastel

Madame. Roman. (German Edition)

dtv.

Sensacja w Polsce... rzecz znakomicie napisana i zmuszajaca do myslenia. Mozna ja czytac naraz jako thriller, fascynujaca historie milosna, a takze jako komiczna powiesc polityczna i spoleczna satyre. Spelniajac bardzo wysokie standardy artystyczne, daje gleboki wglad w rozmaite dziedziny i sprawy - od psychologii wieku mlodzienczego po ideologiczna kleske komunizmu.

Madame (Polish Edition)

Znak

Madame (Andanzas) (Spanish Edition)

Genre Fiction

Tusquets Editores S.A.

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