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Original Title:	Madame
ISBN:	1841955205 (ISBN13: 9781841955209)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	International Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2002)

Madame

Antoni Libera

Paperback | Pages: 448 pages

Rating: 4.22 | 1577 Users | 56 Reviews

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Title	:	Madame
Author	:	Antoni Libera
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 448 pages
Published	:	May 26th 2004 by Canongate U.S. (first published 1998)
Categories	:	European Literature. Polish Literature. Fiction. Cultural. Poland. Historical. Historical Fiction. Literature. Contemporary. Classics

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The comic "sentimental education" of a schoolboy who falls in love with his French teacher. Madame is an unexpected gem: a novel about Poland during the grim years of Soviet-controlled mediocrity, which nonetheless sparkles with light and warmth.

Our young narrator-hero is suffering through the regulated boredom of high school when he is transfixed by a new teacher --an elegant "older woman" (she is thirty-two) who bewitches him with her glacial beauty and her strict intelligence. He resolves to learn everything he can about her and to win her heart.

In a sequence of marvelously funny but sobering maneuvers, he learns much more than he expected to--about politics, Poland, the Spanish Civil War, and his own passion for theater and art--all while his loved one continues to elude him. Yet without his realizing it, his efforts--largely bookish and literary--to close in on Madame are his first steps to liberation as an artist. Later, during a stint as a teacher-in-training in his old school, he discovers that he himself has become a legendary figure to a new generation of students, and he begins to understand the deceits and blessings of myth, and its redemptive power.

A winning portrait of an artist as a young man, Madame is at the same time a moving, engaging novel about strength and weakness, first love, and the efforts we make to reconcile, in art, the opposing forces of reason and passion.

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Ratings: 4.22 From 1577 Users | 56 Reviews

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A Polish "The Graduate," this story takes place in the time of Communist Poland. The narrator is a precocious student, well-versed in French and literature, and the tale of his relationship with his French teacher and headmistress of the high school he attends. I found it fascinating and have already put it on my "re-read sometime" bucket list. The author has translated Samuel Beckett's works into Polish. The quibble with the book might be that the narrator's brilliance is not believable. I

Beautifully written, sold as a love story, but indeed painting Polish society, their fears, aspirations & longing for freedom of speech in the Soviet-controlled country.

A very strange story about a teenage boys obsession with his French teacher. Set in Soviet run Poland of the 1960s and 1970s. I am not sure why I picked this up but I read it all the way through. If you come across it Id just keep on walking if I was you.

Combines the wit of Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, the savage political satire of The Joke, and the dazzling wordplay of the The Seventh Function of Language. Really, a mesmerising read - and the experience is heightened if you read it sitting in Warsaw!

Did not adhere to my expectations. Pretentious.

This is a fantastic book. It is funny and engaging from the first page, and I looked forward to returning to it every day until I had read the last page. It's such a Warsaw story, I was glad I had been to Warsaw and could see in my mind the paths of the characters in the story.

Set in 1960s Communist Poland,this novel charts the obsession of a teenage boy with his French teacher. The protagonist, who I don't believe is ever named, is obnoxious and opinionated and not that likable. Yet this still remains a fascinating novel and intriguing for the most part.