Myśliwski’s The Palace: A Translator’s Introduction

Abstract

Myśliwski is a writer who is not particularly well-known outside eastern Europe, because he has not been translated until recently into western European languages. One can speculate as to why this may be so. It may be because the subject matter is considered to be inaccessible to western European audiences, though this is debatable. It may also have something to do with the fact that he is not controversial politically, in fact he does not concern himself with politics, he never had to publish in the second circulation, and he perhaps therefore lacks the cachet of certain other contemporary writers: Tadeusz Konwicki, Janusz Anderman, Marek Nowakowski, Andrzej Szczypiorski, all of whom have been published in English.

Pałac. Warsaw, 1970; The Palace, translated by Ursula Phillips, London, 1991.