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Polish Literature Club: “Tango”
April 30, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
This local club is for readers who would like to discuss Polish literature in English.
The book for the meeting is Tango by Sławomir Mrożek, first published in 2006. Tango is a play, and arguably, his most famous one. In his trademark absurd style the play deals with the totalitarianism and its brutal ways of forcing conformism; the subject treatment through the fog of absurd makes for a different and interesting perspective.
Mrożek (1930-2013) is nowadays best known as a playwright, with Tango and Emigrants / Emigranci staged worldwide. However, he was also famous for his short stories and that is how yours truly discovered him as a writer. He frequently used nonsense situations.