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Andrzej Szczypiorski

A Mass for Arras

Published by Diogenes as Eine Messe für die Stadt Arras

Original Title: Msza za miasto Arras

In 1461, Jan enthusiastically participates in the persecution of the Jews and witches blamed for an outbreak of plague and famine, but the burgeoning violence threatens Jan himself as he faces choices that have allegorical links to contemporary issues.

History, Current Affairs, Contemporary Literature
200 pages
1988

978-3-257-01775-5

Andrzej

Szczypiorski

Andrzej Szczypiorski (1928 – 2000) was born in Warsaw, took part in the city’s uprising against German occupation in 1944 and was subsequently sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp. After the war, he worked as an author and publisher and became a member of the executive board of the Polish PEN Club and the Writer’s Association. In December 1981, he was interned in a camp and remained a prisoner there until spring 1982. In 1989, he was chosen as a candidate by Solidarnosc and elected to the Polish Senate by the people. He received the Austrian ›State Award for European Literature‹ and the ›Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany‹.

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The New York Times Book Review

»Gripping and persuasive…About the forces now raging in the former Yugoslavia and Soviet Union, Mr. Szczypiorski seems to have shown prescience.«

Library Journal

»A thought-provoking meditation on the human tendency to find meaning in suffering by blaming others and to pervert ideals to base means…Simply, elegantly, and yet with great power, Szczypiorski lays out the dangers of a worldview clearly reminiscent of Eastern Europe before the fall of communism.«

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