03/12/2017
My review of “Król” by Szczepan Twardoch
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...