Farewells to Plasma

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Fiction. Few Polish prose writers of the past ten years have attracted as much delight and bewilderment as Natasza Goerke. Her stories, which are commonly fastened with predicates like "surreal", "grotesque", "ludicrous", "ironic", and "extravagant", call to mind the absurdist and parabolic work of Daniil Kharms, Slawomir, Mrozek, Clarice Lispector, and Antonio Tabucchi. FAREWELLS TO PLASMA is a selection of Goerke's short stories and prose from her three volumes in Polish "The transgression and abolition of ...

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Fiction. Few Polish prose writers of the past ten years have attracted as much delight and bewilderment as Natasza Goerke. Her stories, which are commonly fastened with predicates like "surreal", "grotesque", "ludicrous", "ironic", and "extravagant", call to mind the absurdist and parabolic work of Daniil Kharms, Slawomir, Mrozek, Clarice Lispector, and Antonio Tabucchi. FAREWELLS TO PLASMA is a selection of Goerke's short stories and prose from her three volumes in Polish "The transgression and abolition of borders, the permeation of East and West, tradition and modernity, dream and reality - these are the narrative coordinates of Goerke's universe, teeming with those who are wandering, searching, yearning - and, chiefly, loving"-Süddeutsche Zeitung.

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Editorial Reviews

Bill Bathhurst
Her stories knocked me out Š A wailing new voice that can't be mistaken for anyone else's.
— Radio Prague
From The Critics
Natasza Goerke is writing ... a prose that moves ... with a Chekhovian obliquity: in one stroke idiomatic, sensitive, and aloof.
World Literature Today
Goerke's short stories build time-mosaics. Time circular, disorganized, chopped; time melting away like identities and life purposes. Time caught between meltdown and brokenness, a metaphor of failed relationships.
Süddeutsche Zeitung
The transgression and abolition of borders, the permeation of East and West, tradition and modernity, dream and reality these are the narrative coordinates of Goerke's universe ...
Laird Hunt
Goerke writes with verve on all shape and variety of topics ... The result is an absurdist-inflected brand of magical realism, akin in its fusion of homegrown and international (often Western, often American) culture and concerns to that set out in the shorter works of Haruki Murakami.
—Rain Taxi
Christine Hume
Delightfully extravagant, ludicrous stories that see this world so fiercely and clearly, they see past it.
Christopher Middleton
Natasza Goerke is writing ... a prose that moves ... with a Chekhovian obliquity: in one stroke idiomatic, sensitive, and aloof.
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Table of Contents

Waiting Underground (Transitions) 11
Tourists 18
Beyond Fear 20
Siddhartha 21
Stories 22
Linen Shops 23
A Plot 25
Celtic Cross 26
Umbrella 28
The Thin Arm 30
Segment 31
Different Schools of Perception 32
The Visit 33
The Return 35
Siberian Palms 38
Rocking Horse 44
Konstantin Musk's Last Feint 51
For the Sake of Art 58
Zoom 65
La Mala Hora 70
Waning Luster 80
Farewells to Plasma 87
A Wonderful Day in May 93
Respite 95
Catharsis 98
Marchand 103
Dog 113
Kumari 121
The Final Defeat 126
The Chosen One 127
Art Diabolica 129
Translator's Note 137
About the Author / About the Translator 141
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