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Marek Bieńczyk
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Born in Warsaw in 1956. He is a novelist, essayist, translator of Kundera and Cioran, a literary historian at Literary Research Institute of Polish Academy of Sciences and Letters, and a contributor to the French quarterly "L'atelier du roman". He studied Romance Languages and Literatures at Warsaw University.

His reputation was established by his novel "Terminal" (1994), a "post-modernist" love story of two scholarship winners who arrive in France from the opposite ends of the world. "Time's scholarship winner," as the male lover and narrator auto-ironically describes himself, is a contemporary troubadour - and the game that he must play is the contemplation of the vacuity and emptiness into which he is driven by self-knowledge and his role as a character in a tale of impossible love. After all, everything that happens is make-believe, in quotation marks, an intermezzo - for such is the nature of a scholarship. As a lover and as an author, he is fated to remain unsatisfied, to re- enact the gestures and rituals imposed by culture, language and memory. Bieńczyk's novel is full of delicate humor and elegant literary games, hidden quotations, allusions and digressions. It is complemented by "Those Who Never Recover What They've Lost", an essay on the melancholy sensibility and its presentation in contemporary literature. Bieńczyk has published a new novel "Tworki", set in a psychiatric hospital during Second World War. It has already received a prize from the Culture Foundation.

Selected Bibliography:
  • "Terminal", Warsaw: PIW, 1994
  • "Czarny człowiek. Zygmunt Krasiński wobec śmierci / The Black Man: Zygmunt Krasiński and Death", Warsaw: Literary Research Institute, 1991
  • "Those Who Never Recover What They've Lost: Melancholy / Melancholia. O tych, co nigdy nie odnajdą straty", Warsaw: Sic!, 1998
  • "Tworki / Tworki", Warsaw: Sic!, 1999
  • "Kroniki wina / The Wine Chronicles", Warsaw: Sic!, 2001 "(more...)"

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