The Eighth Day of the Week.

Evanston, IL Northwestern University Press, 1994. Paperback COFFEE STAINS at the fore-edge and at the lower corner of the first twenty pages. Else, Very Good in Wraps: shows indications of very careful use: light wear to extremities; very mild rubbing to wrapper covers; binding shows barely discernible lean, while remaining perfectly secure; text clean. Remains close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. 120pp. Translated by Norbert Guterman. (European Classics Series). University Press Paperback. Poland in the 60's. Characters drawned as with no illusions, a young man always drunk, so as not to remember the present and the lack of love and understanding, his sister the only one who has the spark of faith in the possibilities of humane changes, but at the end even she breaks down. In the background the system: everything seems to collapse, stifling and atrophying. The country survives because it feeds on its inhabithans, on their blood and hopes. Hlasko recreates the disillusion he himself lived within, and died too young and too early to realize that he was correct in his prophecies.