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- catalog abstract ""Madame is a novel about Poland during the grim years of Soviet-controlled mediocrity which nonetheless sparkles with light and warmth." "Our young narrator-hero is suffering through the regulated boredom of high school when he is transfixed by a new teacher - an elegant "older woman" (she is thirty-two) who bewitches him with her glacial beauty and her strict intelligence. He resolves to learn everything he can about her and to win her heart." "In a sequence of marvelously funny but sobering maneuvers, he finds out much more than he expected - about politics, Poland, and the Spanish Civil War, and his own passion for theater and art - all while his loved one continues to elude him. Yet without his realizing it, his efforts - largely bookish and literary - to close in on Madame are his first steps to liberation as an artist. Later, during a stint as a teacher-in-training in his old school, he discovers that he himself has become a legendary figure to a new generation of students, and he begins to understand the deceits and blessings of myth, and its redemptive power."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Madame. English".
- catalog contributor b11562857.
- catalog contributor b11562858.
- catalog coverage "Poland Politics and government 1945- Fiction.".
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""In a sequence of marvelously funny but sobering maneuvers, he finds out much more than he expected - about politics, Poland, and the Spanish Civil War, and his own passion for theater and art - all while his loved one continues to elude him. Yet without his realizing it, his efforts - largely bookish and literary - to close in on Madame are his first steps to liberation as an artist.".
- catalog description ""Madame is a novel about Poland during the grim years of Soviet-controlled mediocrity which nonetheless sparkles with light and warmth." "Our young narrator-hero is suffering through the regulated boredom of high school when he is transfixed by a new teacher - an elegant "older woman" (she is thirty-two) who bewitches him with her glacial beauty and her strict intelligence. He resolves to learn everything he can about her and to win her heart."".
- catalog description "Later, during a stint as a teacher-in-training in his old school, he discovers that he himself has become a legendary figure to a new generation of students, and he begins to understand the deceits and blessings of myth, and its redemptive power."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "vi, 439 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0374200068 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng pol".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux,".
- catalog spatial "Poland Politics and government 1945- Fiction.".
- catalog spatial "Poland".
- catalog subject "891.8/538 21".
- catalog subject "First loves Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PG7171.I19 M3413 2000".
- catalog subject "Teacher-student relationships Poland Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Young men Poland Fiction.".
- catalog title "Madame / Antoni Libera ; translated from the Polish by Agnieszka Kolakowska.".
- catalog title "Madame. English".
- catalog type "Bildungsromane. gsafd".
- catalog type "Bildungsromans. gsafd".
- catalog type "Fiction. fast".
- catalog type "text".