Medallions (book)

Medallions (the original Polish title: Medaliony[2]) is a book consisting of eight short stories by the Polish author Zofia Nałkowska.[3]

Medallions
First edition
AuthorZofia Nałkowska
Original titleMedaliony
TranslatorDiana Kuprel; Zofia Nałkowska
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreDocumentary
PublisherCzytelnik
Publication date
1946[1]
Published in English
Feb 1999
Northwestern University Press
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages49[1]
ISBN0-8101-1743-6
OCLC42475803
940.53/174386 21
LC ClassPG7158.N34 M3413 2000

The book was originally published in 1946, soon after the end of World War II. In it, Nałkowska calmly related selected stories of Nazi atrocities in Poland and the fates of their victims. Nałkowska was a member of a special committee for the investigation of Nazi crimes that took place in Poland, where she had learned facts directly from victims and witnesses.

Considered a masterpiece of antifascist world literature, Medallions (written in 1945 and first published in 1946) stands as the culmination of Nalkowska's literary style, a style that the Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz once described as "the iron capital of her art and one of the very few exportables in our national literature." More than mere historical record, Medallions offers the reader startling immediacy, the repetition of an event as it persists in the testimonial present, in the scars on the consciousness and conscience of individuals.

— Northwestern University Press, [3]

Part of the text was published in English in the Introduction to Modern Polish Literature edited by Adam Gillon and Ludwik Krzyżanowski. A complete translation by Diana Kuprel was published by the Northwestern University Press in 2000.[4]

See also

References
  1. "Medallions by Zofia Nalkowska, Paperback, February 25, 2000". Indigo Books. 2018. Retrieved 2018-02-07.
  2. Zofia, Nałkowska (1946), Medaliony, Warsaw: Spółdzielnię Wydawniczą „Czytelnik”, archived from the original on 2017-04-30, retrieved 2018-02-07
  3. Zofia, Nałkowska; Kuprel (translator), Diana (1999), Medallions, Northwestern University Press, p. 49, ISBN 0-8101-1743-6, OCLC 42475803, retrieved 2018-02-07 {{citation}}: |last2= has generic name (help)
  4. "Medallions, Zofia Nalkowska, Considered a masterpiece of antifascist world literature". Northwestern University Press. 2006. Archived from the original on 2006-09-01. Retrieved 2007-09-01.
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