| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
vi, 439 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
"Madame is 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." |
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"In a sequence of marvelously funny but sobering maneuvers, he finds out much more than he expected - about politics, Poland, and 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. |
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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."--Jacket. |
| Subject |
Young men -- Poland -- Fiction.
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First loves -- Fiction.
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Teacher-student relationships -- Poland -- Fiction.
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Poland -- Politics and government -- 1945- -- Fiction.
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First loves. (OCoLC)fst00925778
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Politics and government (OCoLC)fst01919741
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Teacher-student relationships. (OCoLC)fst01144236
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Young men. (OCoLC)fst01183263
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Poland. (OCoLC)fst01206891
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| Chronological Term |
Since 1945
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Bildungsromans.
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| Added Author |
Kołakowska, Agnieszka.
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| Added Title |
Madame. English
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| ISBN |
0374200068 (alk. paper) |
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9780374200060 (alk. paper) |
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