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I locked myself into their stories, dreamt of their characters at night, pretended to be them.
This is how I lived back then-through books. Milosz, Szymborska, Kapuscinski, and others.
Over their four years in college she had introduced him to a variety of influences, Simone de Beauvoir. But when he is 22, he is sent to a typical communist re-education summer camp, to learn about peasant, farming life, riding with his schoolfriend Karolina. As a teen, Ludwik has a fleeting sexual experience. But Beniek did not fit in either, for different reasons, and one day he mysteriously disappears. Ludwik, living in New York City, looks back at a life that is still young, remembers his first crush, on an older, more developed boy, one he came close to kissing, and certainly loved. A time when being gay was a criminal offense. A period when the old regime was beginning to crumble. Tomasz Jedrowski - image from Interview Magazine And the longer we wait, the more painful and uncertain it will be.This is a stunning work of surpassing beauty! Sooner or later we are forced to confront their darkness. Ludwik, living in New York City, l …we can never run with our lies indefinitely.
And the longer we wait, the more painful and uncertain it will be.This is a stunning work of surpassing beauty! Tomasz Jedrowski - image from Interview Magazine Ludwik Glowaki did not fit in. …we can never run with our lies indefinitely. Lyrical and sensual, immersive and intense, Tomasz Jedrowski has crafted an indelible and thought-provoking literary debut that explores freedom and love in all its incarnations.more Shifting from the intoxication of first love to the quiet melancholy of growing up and growing apart, Swimming in the Dark is a potent blend of romance, post-war politics, intrigue, and history. Their secret love and personal and political differences slowly begin to tear them apart as both men struggle to survive in a regime on the brink of collapse. Ludwik is drawn toward impulsive acts of protest, unable to ignore rising food prices and the stark economic disparity around them. Once they return to Warsaw, the charismatic Janusz quickly rises in the political ranks of the party and is rewarded with a highly-coveted position in the ministry. But in their repressive communist and Catholic society, the passion they share is utterly unthinkable. Inhabiting a beautiful natural world removed from society and its constraints, Ludwik and Janusz fall deeply in love. After their camp duties are fulfilled, the pair spend a dreamlike few weeks camping in the countryside, bonding over an illicit copy of James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room. But a chance meeting by the river soon becomes an intense, exhilarating, and all-consuming affair. When university student Ludwik meets Janusz at a summer agricultural camp, he is fascinated yet wary of this handsome, carefree stranger. When university student Ludwik meets Janusz at a su Set in early 1980s Poland against the violent decline of communism, a tender and passionate story of first love between two young men who eventually find themselves on opposite sides of the political divide-a stunningly poetic and heartrending literary debut for fans of Andre Aciman, Garth Greenwell, and Alan Hollinghurst. Set in early 1980s Poland against the violent decline of communism, a tender and passionate story of first love between two young men who eventually find themselves on opposite sides of the political divide-a stunningly poetic and heartrending literary debut for fans of Andre Aciman, Garth Greenwell, and Alan Hollinghurst.