ABSTRACT
Janusz Głowacki (b. 1938) became widely known in the 1960s and 1970s as a writer of shorter literary forms: satirical sketches, short stories, plays and filmscripts. He has gained most recognition internationally for his plays translated into English. Kopciuch, translated as Cinders, about the rough life in a girls’ reform school, was considered the best play of 1981 by The Times. Głowacki stayed abroad following the imposition of martial law by the communist government in 1981, and eventually settled in New York, where he continues to contribute to Polish literature, most recently with his Good Night, Dżerzi , a novelistic treatment of the last days of the Polish émigré novelist Jerzy Kosiński. The present story, highlighting the country-town dichotomy and the flight of young people to the latter, as well as the age-old conflicts arising out of property interest that remain regardless of the political system (the story takes place in the PRL ‘People’s Poland’), is contained in the collection Polowanie na muchy i inne opowiadania (Hunting for Flies and Other Stories, PIW, Warszawa, 1974). https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315883724/f1ec34ee-0050-45f0-bb21-227ec0c07bdd/content/ufig15_1_B.jpg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>
