Born in 1979, Szczepan Twardoch is one of the most read and appreciated Polish novelists of the young generation. Beyond many stylistic and thematic qualities, his fiction deserves our attention because of the need to combat the widespread stereotype of Poland as a mono-religious country populated with people from the same ethnical and cultural background. Twardoch, who in numerous interviews identifies himself as a Silesian[1] , insists on the diversity of Poles, as opposed to being a homoge...
Ian McEwan (born in 1948) is one of the most rewarded and widely read contemporary English writers of 21st century. His novels, which in many cases have become worldwide bestsellers, have received critical acclaim and won a number of important literary accolades including the Man Booker Prize (1998). McEwan assuredly owes his critical and commercial success to his writing approach – a sort of creative recipe well known to many present and past authors attentive to their literary style, desiro...
A Passage to India (1924), by a renowned English writer Edward Morgan Foster, is a novel about cultural encounter, colonisation and alterity. Moreover, it constitutes an interesting “document” about life and atmosphere in time of rapid colonial expansion approximately twenty years before the collapse of the British Empire. The book tells a story of Mrs Moore’s stay in India where her son Ronny, engaged to Adela Quest, occupies the post of a city magistrate. Encouraged by a pleasant conversati...