Title: Ja
First published: 1984
Description: They say a human being is composed of many distinctive personalities. This is the main lead in Bojarska's novel, an apartment inhabited by many persons, a woman dreaming of a husband and a stable life and a depressed writer, a girl who wants to take revenge for all her misery and a successful political scientist, a terrorist and a drug-addicted singer... They are bound to live together but as time goes by this task is becoming more and more difficult; maybe time has come to get rid of the most burdensome flatmates? Brilliant observer of the everyday life in the Communist Poland, Bojarska describes a state and a state of mind at the same time.
Subjects: psychology, communism, individual, freedom
Places: Poland
People: Gudrun Ensslin (1940-1977), Mary Bell, Janis Joplin
Time periods: 1980s
LC classification: MLCS 87/05659 (P)