So I finally finished this 150-or-so-year-spanning collection of Polish myth, horror, and anti-realism. Hits less of the decadent/symbolist/surrealist territory that some of the other Dedali, perhaps because of the Catholic Polish national identity that favors stories of devilish trickery, or perhaps because the editor-translator was mostly interested in Catholic Polish National identity that favors such. In any event, super interesting, and a trove of very buried authors.
Many featured authors here have never otherwise showed up in English, but here are a few that have and which seem worthwhile:
Andrzej Bursa, Killing Auntie (the surreal, but actually practical, problems of disposing of the body of an aunt you've just killed for no real reason whatsoever)
Bruno Jasieński, I Burn Paris (Subversive story of plague and revolt in Paris was enough to get its socialist-futurist author deported from France in the interwar years. His story the anthology is pretty great.)
The officially (already with a thread) buried (and wonderful) Stefan Grabinski also shows up, plus the less buried (but also wonderful) Bruno Schulz and Witold Gombrowicz.
Many featured authors here have never otherwise showed up in English, but here are a few that have and which seem worthwhile:
Andrzej Bursa, Killing Auntie
(the surreal, but actually practical, problems of disposing of the body of an aunt you've just killed for no real reason whatsoever)
Bruno Jasieński, I Burn Paris
(Subversive story of plague and revolt in Paris was enough to get its socialist-futurist author deported from France in the interwar years. His story the anthology is pretty great.)
The officially (already with a thread) buried (and wonderful) Stefan Grabinski also shows up, plus the less buried (but also wonderful) Bruno Schulz and Witold Gombrowicz.