On the Road to Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe
"Stasiuk is one of Poland's best-known contemporary authors and On the Road to Babadag is a welcome addition to his growing English-language corpus...Unfailingly stimulating and ably translated by Michael Kandel" -- Toby Lichtig Times Literary Supplement "Stasiuk's journeys are vivid poetry... What formally also underpins Stasiuk's travels, and rather beautifully embodies his resistance to the future, is how his prose communicates the working of memory, mirroring its inconsequentiality. His accounts are fragmented, shuffled, continued later or not. Time breaks down as it is past; in his mind events cover space and time in an even, translucent layer" -- Julian Evans Prospect "Now English readers can enjoy the rewards of Stasiuk's entrancing attempt to stand in the way of progress. It's an exceptional writer who can rise to such an impossible challenge" Independent "A eulogy for the old Europe, the Europe both in and out of time, the Europe now lost in the folds of the map, On the Road to Babadag is valuable reading for UK readers. If we can't read our way around Europe, how will we ever find our place, our identity, within it?" Guardian "At once powerful, punkish, angry, and disorientating in its quest to probe into Europe's dirty laundry" Scotland on Sunday--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.