Hello
Gentle Reader
Jerzy
Pilch was one of Poland’s most intellectually fierce writers, and perhaps one
of its most noted satirists. His literary career begun in the depths of Poland’s
Soviet past. In the late seventies and early eighties, Pilch made a name for
himself through the underground literary machine, by writing and reciting his satirical
essays, during Poland’s martial law phase. The essay was Pilch’s first literary
endeavor. Those scathing, sardonic, and satirical articles, zinged across Poland
after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and appeared routinely in newspapers;
after which they were collected and published in book format. In the nineties,
Pilch turned his literary interests to grander prose and fiction, producing
novels throughout the last decade of the Twentieth Century and into the Twenty-First
Century. His novels: “My First Suicide,” “A Thousand Peaceful Cities,” and “The
Mighty Angel,”—carried the same sense of the ironic, absurd, and fermented
satire, which had previously gathered him praised in the past with his essays
and reoccurring newspaper columns. The Polish public admired the fierce brand
of literary humour that Pilch was more then happy to provide; perhaps proving
the notion or at least conventional understanding that in Poland high literary pursuits
does not equate antiquated boorish snobbery, but rather an enjoyable expedition
into the philosophical conundrums of the human experience, rendered with ironic
precision, deceitful simplicity, and understated understanding of the contradictions
and paradoxes.
Jerzy
Pilch, died in late May from complications of Parkinson’s.
Rest
in Peace Jerzy Pilch.
Thank-you
For Reading Gentle Reader
Take
Care
And
As Always
Stay
Well Read
M.
Mary
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