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Ewa Kuryluk

In her trilogy, Ewa Kuryluk describes the post-war fate of her family and confronts its numerous traumas and mysteries. The drab reality of the Stalinist era is juxtaposed with a unique home atmosphere, and a major story with a slightly more insignificant one. The protagonist of the first volume of the memoir was Ewa’s father, Karol Kuryluk, who was a well-respected Polish journalist and publisher who served as the Minister of Culture and the Ambassador of the Polish People’s Republic in Austria, and received a Righteous Among the Nations medal. In the second volume, the author describes the life of her mother, Maria – a poet, writer and translator who survived the Holocaust and hid her identity and Jewish origins until the end of her life. The third volume, which closes the series, is devoted to the author’s brother, Piotr. The author has admitted that this was the most difficult and painful subject for her. Piotr, who is now dead, was extraordinarily intelligent, extremely talented and very sensitive, even as a child. After his father’s sudden death, Piotr started to suffer from schizophrenia. Kuryluk writes about the shocking reality of the psychiatric hospitals where her brother was treated and the suffering of their mother. The author once again attempts to come to terms with her own actions and tries to answer the question of whether she did everything necessary to care for her brother, and whether she made enough effort to understand what he was trying to express. The fates of everyone in her family are constantly intertwined with the history of Poland and Europe, which gives the book the character of a personal memoir while at the same time going beyond the framework of her family’s history.

“The lens of the private family story brilliantly brings the old world to life, lending it colors and tastes, helping us forget ‘historical politics.’ This painter, prose writer, poet, critic, and art historian may have created her most important work in this trilogy”.

Tomasz Fijałkowski, Gazeta Wyborcza

Release date: 2019
Pages: 350
ISBN: 978-83-08-06872-4


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Feluni

Ewa Kuryluk

In her trilogy, Ewa Kuryluk describes the post-war fate of her family and confronts its numerous traumas and mysteries. The drab reality of the Stalinist era is juxtaposed with a unique home atmosphere, and a major story with a slightly more insignificant one. The protagonist of the first volume of the memoir was Ewa’s father, Karol Kuryluk, who was a well-respected Polish journalist and publisher who served as the Minister of Culture and the Ambassador of the Polish People’s Republic in Austria, and received a Righteous Among the Nations medal. In the second volume, the author describes the life of her mother, Maria – a poet, writer and translator who survived the Holocaust and hid her identity and Jewish origins until the end of her life. The third volume, which closes the series, is devoted to the author’s brother, Piotr. The author has admitted that this was the most difficult and painful subject for her. Piotr, who is now dead, was extraordinarily intelligent, extremely talented and very sensitive, even as a child. After his father’s sudden death, Piotr started to suffer from schizophrenia. Kuryluk writes about the shocking reality of the psychiatric hospitals where her brother was treated and the suffering of their mother. The author once again attempts to come to terms with her own actions and tries to answer the question of whether she did everything necessary to care for her brother, and whether she made enough effort to understand what he was trying to express. The fates of everyone in her family are constantly intertwined with the history of Poland and Europe, which gives the book the character of a personal memoir while at the same time going beyond the framework of her family’s history.

“The lens of the private family story brilliantly brings the old world to life, lending it colors and tastes, helping us forget ‘historical politics.’ This painter, prose writer, poet, critic, and art historian may have created her most important work in this trilogy”.

Tomasz Fijałkowski, Gazeta Wyborcza

Release date: 2019
Pages: 350
ISBN: 978-83-08-06872-4