Self-portrait with woman
By: by Andrzej Szczypiorski ; translated by Bill Johnston.
Contributors: Johnston, Bill.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Grove Press; Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Man-woman relationships -- Fiction; Poland -- Biography -- Fiction; Geneva (Switzerland) -- Fiction
Description: A Warsaw sociologist is summoned to Geneva to participate in an oral-history project about the collapse of Eastern European communism and resolves to tell his own story through a gallery of portraits of the many women he has loved. These reminiscences emerge against the broader canvas of circumstances and events that have shaped the past sixty years of Poland's turbulent, tragic history.

Soon he finds himself inexorably drawn to his interrogator from the "free" world, the chronicler of his life, the keeper of his secrets, and his heart's last hope for redemptive love. Self-Portrait with Woman is at once a haunting and lyrical portrait of a man, of a country, and of the twilight years of an era.