10 x miłość

by Manuela Gretkowska, Jerzy Pilch, Janusz Leon Wiśniewski

Autorzy: Hanna Bakuła, Izabela Filipiak, Manuela Gretkowska, Tomasz Jastrun, Maria Nurowska, Jerzy Pilch, Katarzyna Pisarzewska, Agnieszka Stefańska, Grażyna Szapołowska, Janusz Leon Wiśniewski

Dziesięć różnych obliczy miłości, od wierności po zdradę, platonicznych i erotycznych, napisanych przez najpopularniejszych polskich pisarzy. Wierność, zdrada, seks, naiwność tęsknota czy - jak w opowiadaniu Janusza L. Wiśniewskiego - nienawiść. Te opowiadania różni niemal wszystko: wiek, charakter i profesje bohaterów, a także styl i sposób narracji. Bywa zabawnie i smutno, z happy endem lub bez, prozaicznie albo poetycko, seksualnie i platonicznie - jak to w życiu!

320 pages, Paperback

First published January 25, 2005

About the author

Gretkowska studied philosophy at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. In 1988 she left Poland to live in Paris, where she studied anthropology at École des hautes études en sciences sociales. It was France where she wrote her first short stories.

Gretkowska's literary debut was the novel We Are Immigrants Here (My zdies' emigranty) (1991), in which she ironically described the experiences of the young generation leaving Poland. Gretkowska's next three books described the life of a modern artistic-intellectual bohemian living in France: Paris Tarot (1993), Metaphysical Cabaret (1994), and Textbook for people. Skull: The First and Last Volume (1996) connects gnosis, kabbala, the character of Mary Magdalene and the skull motif in global culture. In this period, the writer earned the title of "scandalist" and "postmodernist." Manuela Gretkowska's prose eschewed grandiose language, more similar to the ease and austerity of the essay. In 1996, Gretkowska wrote a screenplay for the Andrzej Żuławski film Szamanka (She-Shaman).

In 1997, Gretkowska moved to Sweden, where she published several collected stories in the book Namiętnik (The Passionate One) (1998), notes from her world travels in Światowidz (World-View) (1998), and her columns, under the collective title Silikon (Silicon) (2000). She also co-wrote the screenplay for the first season of the TV series Miasteczko (Small Town) (2000).

Gretkowska's newest work is more personal, almost intimiate prose. Polka (Polish woman) (2001) was the writer's pregnancy journal, while Europejka (European Woman) (2004) presents a humorous view of a changing Poland through the eyes of Gretkowska the intellectual. In 2003 the author, together with her partner Piotr Pietucha wrote Scenes from Extramarital Life.

Reviews

[Moroniq · Rating 3 out of 5]

Opowiadania bardzo nierówne poziomem. Niektóre naprawdę słabe. Dodatkowa gwiazdka za to, że szybko i lekko się je czytało.

[Martyna]

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