The Birch Grove and Other Stories (Central European Classics)

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Summary: Excellent stories by J. Iwaszkiewicz.
Review: Themes of this stories are the opposition eros/thanatos, old/young, jealousy, the prime impulses of humanity.
His scenery is the Polish countryside with its noblemen and peasantry.
His technique is modern, mingling past and present with flashbacks.
The Birch Grove, for instance, relates in violent terms a live-and-death struggle of two brothers for a girl.
Surprising work.