REMBEK Stanislaw
IN THE FIELD
Story
Paris 1958. institute of letters, pp. 309, [2]. Brochure. Bibliot. "Kultura", vol. 31; format 13.5x21.5 cm
In the field - a novel by Stanislaw Rembek published in 1937 by Instytut Wydawniczy "Biblioteka Polska", reissued in 1958 in the Paris Library of "Kultura".
The book's reissue was blocked by communist censorship after World War II.
The work depicts the fate of a Polish infantry unit, part of General Zeligowski's division on the northern front, during the offensive of Tukhachevsky's army in the summer of 1920, during the Polish-Bolshevik war.
Czeslaw Milosz, in his History of Polish Literature, cites the novel In the Field as the best book about combat that was written in the interwar period. By many critics of the time, the novel was considered the most outstanding work in the writer's oeuvre. For Maria Dabrowska, the novel was in many ways better than Erich Maria Remarque's In the West Without Change. For his novel In the Field, Rembek was awarded the prize of the Franz Sales Leventhal Foundation and the Adam Asnyk Award of the City of Kalisz in 1938.
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