Farewells To Plasma

This is a selection of short surrealistic-grotesque stories from Goerke's three original Polish titles. Recalling Kafka's parables and Borges' ficciones, her writing eludes all static interpretations: she carries on philosphical disputations in colloquial language, reduces national and cultural myths to absurdity, and juxtaposes commonplaces and archetypes. Her narrative forms describe, capture and interpret the chaos of our natural environment and are of a caliber that deserves wider international recognition.