4 Books by Magdalena Tulli
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Overview: Magdalena Tulli (born 20 October 1955 in Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish novelist, one of Poland’s leading writers. Magdalena Tulli’s novels include In Red, Dreams and Stones and Moving Parts, nominated for the 2006 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and Flaw, shortlisted for the 2007 Nike Prize, Poland’s most prestigious literary award. Tulli is also the translator of Proust and Calvino into Polish. She lives in Warsaw.
Genre: Fiction | Polish
1)Dreams and Stones
Immediately hailed as one of the most brilliant contributions to the literature of Central and Eastern Europe since the fall of communism, Dreams and Stones(Sny i kamienie) won the prestigious Koscielski Foundation Prize in Poland in 1995. Tulli tells the story of the growth of a great city rebuilt after its complete destruction in World War II by entering the lives of the stones from which the buildings and monuments are constructed, as well as inhabiting the dreams of people and objects interwoven within the city’s history. This novel/prose poem’s haunting lyricism truly breaks new literary ground, and comparisons have been made between her work and the stories of Bruno Schulz.
2)Flaw
A single streetcar line runs around the sleepy suburban square of an unnamed city. One day—out of nowhere—a group of hapless refugees pour from the streetcar and set up camp in the square. The residents grow hostile to the disruption and chaos, and eventually take extreme action. Flaw is Tulli’s most personally motivated work yet, while still retaining the signature mind- and word-play that has made critics and her growing readership alike marvel.
3)In Red
By the Koscielski Prize-winning author of Dreams and Stones, In Red is a gorgeous, dreamlike depiction of a world that is unreal, yet strangely familiar and utterly convincing. Set in a mythical fourth partition of Poland, In Red is full of haunting descriptions of the town and its inhabitants, who act out their dramas, undergo various ordeals, and live and die without notice—each background like a theater set, to be replaced by another. This beautiful story appeals to a universal sympathy; its power lies in Tulli’s evocative, almost hallucinatory use of language.
4)Moving Parts
A feckless, comical narrator struggles against all odds to tell a story for which he is responsible, but which he neither controls nor understands. His characters multiply, repeat, and go astray; his employer pays no attention, asleep in a drunken stupor. The increasingly desperate narrator clambers over rooftops and through underground passages, watching helplessly as his characters reappear in different times and settings and start rival stories against his will. This brilliant, wryly humorous work tells of the sadness of the world and of the inadequate means that language and storytelling offer for describing and understanding it. Yet it does so in Tulli’s characteristically clear, concrete, gorgeous prose. This extraordinary work, unique in both form and message, shows a European master at the height of her powers and constitutes a major contribution to a new century of European literature. A wildly inventive page-turner.
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