Farewells to Plasma

This is a selection of short surrealistic-grotesque stories from Goerke's threeoriginal 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 [...]
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This is a selection of short surrealistic-grotesque stories from Goerke's threeoriginal 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. of the freshest talents to emerge in recent years. She was born in Pozan, Poland, in 1960, and studied Polish and Oriental languages at university. She has published three books in Polish and one collection in German translation. Her stories have appeared in numerous Polish magazines and in Slovenian, Macedonian, Serbian, German and English anthologies (The Eagle and the Crow, Serpent's Tail—UK, 1996). In 1993 she received the Czas Kultury Prize; in 1995 she won a six-month stipend to the prestigious Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, the only Polish writer to receive this distinction. She currently lives in Hamburg, Germany. Goerke has emerged as an elusive and subversive talent, troublesome and difficult to classify. Grazyna Borkowska, Kresy It suggests Antonio Tabucchi, out to weave his work from a library's entire geological strata, or out of some crazy librarian universe. It's difficult to say with any certainty to what degree Natasza Goerke is self-consciously engaging in her Tabucchi-esque venture, but engage in it she does, right on the cutting edge of today's creative writing. Henryk Bereza, in Gazeta Wyborcza