Title: Czego nauczył mnie August
First published: 1995
Description: How to make a man? What is more, how to make a new active member of a Communist state? Bojarska's novel gives an answer to this. Gucio is a lost boy who needs to fit in. Luckily, he's fast taken care of by August, a real father-brother-camarade figure, someone who's always there for him and who shows him the way to succeed. Little by little, young Gucio's growing to become a real personality... only is it his own or a copy of August's? And will the pupil surpass his teacher? A Galatea tale in times of Communism.
Subjects: Communism, transformation, politics
Places: Poland, West Germany, Great Britain, Russia
Time periods: 1950s-1990s
LC classification: PG7161.O38 C94 1995