Ebook {Epub PDF} I Burn Paris by Bruno Jasieński

I Burn Paris, by Bruno Jasieński, translated from the Polish by Soren A. Gauger and Marcin Piekoszewski, artwork by Christian Opriş, Twisted Spoon Press, Prague, , pp, €, ISBN: Book Blog, Books, Novels, www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 8 mins. He is believed to have been executed and buried in a mass grave near Moscow. In his article, Piotr Mitzner writes that according the NKVD files Jasieński was executed on the 17th of September I Burn Paris by Bruno Jasieński translated from the Polish by Soren A. Gauger Marcin Piekoszewski artwork by Cristian Opriș. Bruno Jasienski’s I Burn Paris has remained one of Poland’s most uncomfortable masterstrokes of literature since its initial and controversial serialization in in the French magazine L’Humanité (for which Jasienski was deported)/5.

I Burn Paris is clearly a modern novel, in the sense of the modernism of the s. It's not hard to imagine why it would have made Jasieński a villain in Paris and a hero in Russia. But the novel has aged well and maintains its uncanny point of view and shocking sensibility. It is a vital addition to Central European literature in English. Poet, novelist, and playwright, Bruno Jasienski (—) was born in Klimontow, Poland. The unquestionable leader of Polish Futurism, his manifestos and poetry were marked by dynamism and absurdity. In , Jasienski emigrated to France but was deported after his novel I Burn Paris was published in He spent the last decade of his. I Burn Paris has remained one of Poland's most uncomfortable masterstrokes of literature since its initial and controversial serialization by Henri Barbusse in in L'Humanité (for which Jasieński was deported for disseminating subversive literature). It tells the story of a disgruntled factory worker who, finding himself on the streets, takes the opportunity to poison Paris's water supply.

Jasieński played a leading part in 20th century Polish Futurism, and his avant-garde, politically-charged works still see him cast as Poland’s enfant terrible. The most important of these, I Burn Paris, brought him misery, celebrity and, ultimately, led to his downfall. Celebrated as a hero, condemned as enemy of the state, Jasinski lived a life of exile and contradiction. Bruno Jasienski’s I Burn Paris has remained one of Poland’s most uncomfortable masterstrokes of literature since its initial and controversial serialization in in the French magazine L’Humanité (for which Jasienski was deported). Bruno Jasieński: I Burn Paris. Bruno Jasieński (real name Wiktor Zysman) was born in Klimontów, Poland, in By his late teens, he had become active in the Polish avant-garde, creating a Futurist group and arguing for anti-elitism in art; by the age of 22 he had declared Futurism dead. To avoid persecution for his Communist campaigning, he moved to Paris in and wrote this novel, which was serialised in L’Humanité in , before it was banned for “exud [ing] blind and stupid.