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Book · 1998
Sęk pies brew
A collection of five short stories centered on ordinary routines: reading, eating meals, listening to music, and casual conversations. The Polish title is a phonetic pun on Gabriel Fauré's piano suite Cinq pièces brèves. Published in 1998, the collection was nominated for Poland's 1999 Nike Literary Award.
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The book was acclaimed by literary critics and earned the author a nomination for the 1999 Nike Literary Award. That same year, Wiedemann received the prestigious Kościelski Award for his literary achievements, including Sęk Pies Brew and Wszędobylstwo porządku.
From Culture.pl I must have bought your unpopular book Sęk, Pies, Brew for three different people in second-hand bookshops, with the kind of encouragement Cortázar gave Márquez when handing him Juan Rulfo: "read and learn". And the new one is much the same—probably the least pretentious prose I know in contemporary Polish literature.
Łukasz Łachecki on Krytyka Polityczna In this collection of five short stories, Adam Wiedemann portrays everyday situations: eating, reading, and listening to music. Routine daily life becomes the springboard for reflections on how to articulate the modern world. The book captivates with sparkling humor and an unpretentious, vivid voice.
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