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Anthony Graham-White adapted a Marek Hlasko story full of characters and atmosphere. Agnieszka, a young woman relatively untouched by the war, passes an existence surrounded by hulks who are psychologically still under the Nazi rule. Her parents are aging and broken; her lover lost all but his physical drives in the concentration camps. One of her brothers still tries to live by Darwinian prison morality, while the other drowns his self-pity in vodka. Throughout their actions parade chorus-like groups of foul-mouthed and drunken toughs, the spawn of occupation...
...guess the issue was a little too crowded to squeeze that in too. But I am glad you could give two-thirds of a page to the rumors about the Shah of Iran and that exiled Italian princess and a similar amount of space to that Polish refugee novelist Hlasko. He sounds like a real interesting guy and I'm glad to see some coverage of his activities in Germany rather than any of this dull stuff about German reunification. The same goes for the story on the princess. Who wants to read about a cabinet resigning anyway...
Abruptly, Marek Hlasko returned to West Berlin, reportedly approached the resident Polish military mission to ask about returning to Warsaw. After dropping out of sight for a lost weekend, he surfaced at Tempelhof airdrome with a flight ticket to Tel Aviv and an Israeli tourist visa good until March. Landing in Israel last week, unshaven and fatigued, Hlasko holed up in an obscure hotel for 24 hours before joining up with Jan Rojewski, an old Polish friend who now lives in an Israeli kibbutz...
Gulped Tranquilizer. Next day, obviously in deep inner conflict, Hlasko declared: "I will be here a month or so, and then I will go back to Poland. I won't write any more. I'll get a job." Gulping a tranquilizer, he went on: "A writer without his country is nothing. Whatever the consequences, I'm going back. Good or bad, it's my country. I don't know from experience what will happen to me. When it happens, then I will have the experience...
Some thought it possible that after a month's rest at the kibbutz, Hlasko might change his mind about returning to Poland. Actress Sonja Ziemann indignantly insisted he would never go back. But the consensus of Polish exiles in West Germany was that if brilliant, helpless, homeless Marek Hlasko does not go back to Poland this time, he will sooner or later...