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Kazimierz Orłoś

Keynote
An acute and brutally honest examination
of Polish reality in the 1970s. A settling of
accounts with the pathologies and moral
decay of the communist era.
Selling Points
 A panoramic novel about the progressive
social decline in the Poland of the Polish
People’s Republic.
 Multi-layered and insightful
psychological portraits.
 An honest and uncompromising settling
of accounts with Polish history.
 A novel written in a simple – yet acute
and powerfully compelling – style.
 The story of a simple engineer – a Polish
everyman – who tries to change something
in the bleak and hopeless reality.
 A now classic novel by the author –
the record of experiences from a specific
era, which may be read today as historical
reportage.
 One of the most important Polish
writers, the winner of many awards and
a doyen of Polish prose.
Description
The 1970s in Poland was a time of
megalomania and ambitious great
construction projects. The novel is set
on the building site of one of them – in
the wild Bieszczady mountains. A group
of labourers and engineers painstakingly

try to create a new reality among
the forests and hills. The problem is that
that the project is already permeated
with pathologies and lies, and everything
around it is inevitably heading towards
collapse. The men are constantly drunk,
hardly anyone works and no one believes
any more in the brave new world promised
by the communist powers. The inequalities
between the ordinary labourers and
the engineering elite deepen and primitive
propaganda assaults them from all sides.
In addition, anybody who tries to change
anything is treated as an enemy and
a traitor. In this distorted and degenerate
reality Witold Szarzyński, engineer, a man
who hasn’t yet abandoned his former
ideals, is trying to find his place. Will he
and a few other like-minded educated
individuals be capable of challenging
the ubiquitous evil? Orłoś has written
a story of the collapse of Polish reality
during the communist era, but also
a universal story about an individual who
takes up an uneven fight with the corrupt
authorities.
Target Market
Readers of twentieth-century prose.
People interested in Polish history.

Release date: 2022
Pages: 368
ISBN: 978-83-08-07638-5


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The Third Lie

Kazimierz Orłoś

Keynote
An acute and brutally honest examination
of Polish reality in the 1970s. A settling of
accounts with the pathologies and moral
decay of the communist era.
Selling Points
 A panoramic novel about the progressive
social decline in the Poland of the Polish
People’s Republic.
 Multi-layered and insightful
psychological portraits.
 An honest and uncompromising settling
of accounts with Polish history.
 A novel written in a simple – yet acute
and powerfully compelling – style.
 The story of a simple engineer – a Polish
everyman – who tries to change something
in the bleak and hopeless reality.
 A now classic novel by the author –
the record of experiences from a specific
era, which may be read today as historical
reportage.
 One of the most important Polish
writers, the winner of many awards and
a doyen of Polish prose.
Description
The 1970s in Poland was a time of
megalomania and ambitious great
construction projects. The novel is set
on the building site of one of them – in
the wild Bieszczady mountains. A group
of labourers and engineers painstakingly

try to create a new reality among
the forests and hills. The problem is that
that the project is already permeated
with pathologies and lies, and everything
around it is inevitably heading towards
collapse. The men are constantly drunk,
hardly anyone works and no one believes
any more in the brave new world promised
by the communist powers. The inequalities
between the ordinary labourers and
the engineering elite deepen and primitive
propaganda assaults them from all sides.
In addition, anybody who tries to change
anything is treated as an enemy and
a traitor. In this distorted and degenerate
reality Witold Szarzyński, engineer, a man
who hasn’t yet abandoned his former
ideals, is trying to find his place. Will he
and a few other like-minded educated
individuals be capable of challenging
the ubiquitous evil? Orłoś has written
a story of the collapse of Polish reality
during the communist era, but also
a universal story about an individual who
takes up an uneven fight with the corrupt
authorities.
Target Market
Readers of twentieth-century prose.
People interested in Polish history.

Release date: 2022
Pages: 368
ISBN: 978-83-08-07638-5


Other covers