13 Top polish literature books like Życie towarzyskie i uczuciowe by Leopold Tyrmand

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Życie towarzyskie i uczuciowe

By: Leopold Tyrmand

3.86

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Warszawa, ale przede wszystkim warszawka w latach 1946-1959. Któż znał ją lepiej od Leopolda Tyrman…

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1. Doctor Zhivago

By: Boris Pasternak , John Bayley , Manya Harari , Max Hayward

4.01

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family … read more

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"Only the superfluous is sordid"

-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

"Only the familiar transformed by genius is truly great."

-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

"The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable."

-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

"And the strong are dominated by the weak and the ignoble."

-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

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2. Zabójca z miasta moreli. Reportaże z Turcji

By: Witold Szabłowski

4.29

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Zabójca z miasta moreli to wielowątkowa opowieść o Turcji rozdartej między Wschodem a Zachodem, isl… read more

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3. Solaris

By: Stanisław Lem

3.99

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

A classic work of science fiction by renowned Polish novelist and satirist Stanislaw Lem. When K… read more

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"Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?"

-Stanisław Lem, Solaris

"If man had more of a sense of humour, things might have turned out differently."

-Stanisław Lem, Solaris

"But what am I going to see? I don't know. In a certain sense, it depends on you."

-Stanisław Lem, Solaris

"I was still a prisoner in my nightmares, and every morning the play began again."

-Stanisław Lem, Solaris

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4. The Elementary Particles

By: Michel Houellebecq , Frank Wynne

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel–pa… read more

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"It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

"He doesn't know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is brief."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

"The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

"J'aurais pu adhérer au Front National, mais à quoi bon manger de la choucroute avec des cons?"

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

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5. Immortality

By: Milan Kundera

4.14

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

This breathtaking, reverberating survey of human nature finds Kundera still attempting to work out … read more

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"The reign of imagology begins where history ends"

-Milan Kundera, Immortality

"واحسرتاه! ففي حالة الحب يكفي القليل جداً لزرع اليأس في النفس!."

-Milan Kundera, Immortality

"To be absolutely modern is to be the ally of one's grave diggers."

-Milan Kundera, Immortality

"I cannot hate them because nothing binds me to them; I have nothing in common with them."

-Milan Kundera, Immortality

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6. Love in a Fallen City

By: Eileen Chang , Karen S. Kingsbury

4.20

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Eileen Chang is one of the great writers of twentieth-century China, where she enjoys a passionate … read more

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7. The Castle

By: Franz Kafka , Mark Harman , Regaip Minareci , None

3.90

Format: 49 pages, Paperback

Translated and with a preface by Mark Harman Left unfinished by Kafka in 1922 and not published unt… read more

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8. Inny świat

By: Gustaw Herling-Grudziński

3.97

Format: 355 pages, Paperback

Wspomnienia Gustawa Herlinga - Grudzińskiego z sowieckiego łagru w Jercewie pod Archagielskiem. Ksi… read more

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"Myślę z przerażeniem i głębokim wstydem o Europie przedzielonej na pół Bugiem, w której po jednej stronie miliony niewolników sowieckich modliły się o wyzwolenie z rąk armii hitlerowskiej, a po drugi…"

-Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, Inny świat

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9. Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo

By: Christiane V. Felscherinow , Horst Rieck , Kai Hermann

4.48

Format: 192 pages,

Sie ist heute sechzehn, kam mit zwolf in einem evangelischen Jugendheim zum Haschisch, mit dreizehn… read more

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10. Narcissus and Goldmund

By: Hermann Hesse , Ursule Molinaro

4.05

Format: 336 pages,

Narcissus and Goldmundtells the story of two medieval men whose characters are diametrically opposi… read more

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11. Ferdydurke

By: Witold Gombrowicz , Danuta Borchardt

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In this bitterly funny novel by the renowned Polish author Witold Gombrowicz. a writer finds himsel… read more

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"Oy, stil – tiranların aleti!"

-Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

"Yakında kendi kişiliklerimizden ve kişiselliklerimizden korkmaya başlayacağız, çünkü onların hiç de sonuna kadar bizim olmadıkları, bizler için apaçık olacak. Ve “Ben buna inanıyorum – ben bunu hisse…"

-Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

"I wished, first of all, to buy my way into people's good graces with my book so that, in subsequent personal contact, I would find the ground already prepared, and, I reasoned, if I succeeded in impl…"

-Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

"Sonuna kadar insan olmayanların sonuna kadar dünya olmayan dünyasını bir ân bile unutamıyordum -ve panikle korka korka, acayip iğrene iğrene, onun bataklık yeşilini sadece gözümde canlandırdığımda bi…"

-Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

12. Bukareszt. Kurz i krew

By: Małgorzata Rejmer

3.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

,,Bukareszt (...) jest jak wrzatek albo kipiel, wzburzony i zmetnialy. (...) Atrybuty miasta: czarn… read more

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13. Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

By: Sam Quinones

3.78

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In fascinating detail, Sam Quinones chronicles how, over the past 15 years, enterprising sugar cane… read more

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14. The Case of Comrade Tulayev

By: Susan Sontag , Willard R. Trask , Victor Serge

3.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

One cold Moscow night, Comrade Tulayev, a high government official, is shot dead on the street, and… read more

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15. Tango

By: Sławomir Mrożek

3.83

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Tango to dramat o wspolczesnym spoleczenstwie, w ktorym panuje konformizm, anarchia, brak postaw. F… read more

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16. Soumission

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.65

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Dans une France assez proche de la nôtre, un homme s’engage dans la carrière universitaire. Peu mot… read more

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"It’s submission,"

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

"There is no Israel for me."

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

"Intimacy isn’t something men talk about."

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

"I was about as political as a bath towel."

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

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17. The Street of Crocodiles

By: Jonathan Safran Foer , Bruno Schulz , Jerzy Ficowski , Celina Wieniewska

4.02

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The Street of Crocodiles in the Polish city of Drogobych is a street of memories and dreams where r… read more

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"Reality is as thin as paper, and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character."

-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles

"Can there be anything sadder than a human being changed into the rubber tube of an enema?"

-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles

"They were villages forgotten in the depth of time, peopled by creatures chained forever to their tiny destinies."

-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles

"The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference."

-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles

18. The Light Fantastic (Discworld, #2; Rincewind #2)

By: Terry Pratchett

3.33

Format: 75 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In The Light Fantasticonly one individual can save the world from a disastrous collision. Unfortuna… read more

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19. Chłopki. Opowieść o naszych babkach

By: Joanna Kuciel-Frydryszak

4.44

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Autorka Służących do wszystkiego wraca do tematu wiejskich kobiet, ale tym razem to opowieść zza dr… read more

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20. Dawno temu w Warszawie (Ślepnąc od świateł, #2)

By: Jakub Żulczyk

4.17

Format: 800 pages, Hardcover

Stało się. Świat się skończył. Nadeszło Groźne i Inne. Przestańcie się mazać, to dopiero począte… read more

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"Warszawa wymusza na tych, którzy się tu urodzili, swoisty fanatyzm, lęk przed przebywanie na dłużej gdziekolwiek indziej. [...] Nie można po prostu mieszkać w Warszawie. Trzeba być jej żołnierzem. Iś…"

-Jakub Żulczyk, Dawno temu w Warszawie (Ślepnąc od świateł, #2)

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21. Childhood / Youth / Dependency (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3)

By: Tove Ditlevsen

4.37

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

Called a masterpiece by The New York Times, the acclaimed trilogy from Tove Ditlevsen, a pioneer in… read more

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"Every person has their own truth just as every child has their own childhood."

-Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood / Youth / Dependency (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3)

"My classmates find me unceasingly, overwhelmingly comical, and I've gotten used to the clown role and even find a sad comfort in it, because together with my confirmed stupidity, it protects me again…"

-Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood / Youth / Dependency (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3)

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22. Serotonin

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.58

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

»Es ist nicht die Zukunft, es ist die Gegenwart, die dich tötet, die wiederkommt, um an dir zu nage… read more

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"[...] chiaramente sto semplificando ma se non si semplifica non si conclude niente."

-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin

"nic nas nie koi równie łatwo jak świadomość innych niż nasze dramatów, które nam zostały oszczędzone"

-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin

"An atmosphere of general catastrophe always alleviates individual catastrophe- that's probably why suicides are so rare in wartime"

-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin

"... it isn't the future but past that kills you, that comes back to torment and undermine you, and effectively ends up killing you."

-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin

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23. Z miłości? To współczuję. Opowieści z Omanu

By: Agata Romaniuk

4.23

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Z miłości? To współczuję to opowieść o współczesnym Omanie. O kobietach i mężczyznach, którzy skryw… read more

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"- No tak. Z miłości. To współczuję. Jak miłość się skończy, zostaniesz z niczym - mówi na odchodnym. Nie zdążam zaprzeczyć. Dziewięć lat później przekonam się, że miała rację."

-Agata Romaniuk, Z miłości? To współczuję. Opowieści z Omanu

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24. The Years

By: Annie Ernaux

4.17

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist’s defining work and a breakout bestseller when… read more

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"Sauver quelque chose du temps où l'on ne sera plus jamais."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"La profusion des choses cachait la rareté des idées et l'usure des croyances."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"The profusion of things concealed the scarcity of ideas and the erosion of beliefs."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"Je ne suis nulle part dans le temps. Il est l'ange qui fait revivre le passé, rend éternel."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

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25. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

By: Barbara Demick

4.45

Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition

Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years—a chaotic period that saw… read more

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"...the strength of the regime came from its ability to isolate its own citizens completely."

-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

"In North Korea, you don’t own your own home; you are merely awarded the right to live there."

-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

"He would wait hours for her, maybe two or three. It didn’t matter. The cadence of life is slower in North Korea. Nobody owned a watch."

-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

"Even in parts of the showcase capital of Pyongyang, you can stroll down the middle of a main street at night without being able to see the buildings on either side."

-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

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26. Chołod

By: Szczepan Twardoch

3.98

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

Nowa powieść Szczepana Twardocha, inspirowana polarnymi wyprawami autora. Wielka podróż przez Ar… read more

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Cover of Samotność Portugalczyka by Iza Klementowska

27. Samotność Portugalczyka

By: Iza Klementowska

3.72

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Kto rządził w domu António de Oliveiry Salazara, dlaczego João Soares został tylko w piżamie, co sł… read more

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28. Patodeweloperka. To nie jest kraj do mieszkania

By: Bartosz Józefiak

4.43

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Cała prawda o branży deweloperskiej w Polsce. Na zamkniętej konferencji deweloperzy dzielą się p… read more

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Cover of Szczury z via Veneto by Piotr Kępiński

29. Szczury z via Veneto

By: Piotr Kępiński

3.53

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

"Tu się nic nie zmienia od dwóch tysięcy lat. Plebejusze, patrycjusze, dziwki, księża. Rzym" – mówi… read more

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30. Życie towarzyskie i uczuciowe

By: Leopold Tyrmand

3.86

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Warszawa, ale przede wszystkim warszawka w latach 1946-1959. Któż znał ją lepiej od Leopolda Tyrman… read more

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31. Dancing w kwaterze Hitlera

By: Andrzej Brycht

3.06

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

В "Дансинг в главната квартира на Хитлер" Брихт избира за място на действие бившата главна квартира… read more

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Król

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4.12

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