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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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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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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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Ratings: 4.22 From 1577 Users | 56 Reviews

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Its probably the best book Ive read over the past six months, and I have quite a lot of disparate thoughts to share, so Ill organize this review in bullet points, but will try to give it some semblance of order.1. Ive read this book in Polish, and what a pleasure it was! But from what Ive read, the English translation by Agnieszka Kołakowska is really good; you can read the sample chapter here: http://www.antoni-libera.pl/node/58 . It doesnt make me as blissed out as the original, but it seems

I thought the book was very slow...

My favourite teacher recommended me that book and I remember being 17, entering my school's small library, proudly saying to the lady behind the counter:-I'm looking for "Madame", written by Antoni Libera (with a VERY BAD french accent)And she was like:-Oh yes, polish literature. It's right over there.I just couldn't get over it. It sounded SO french to me.Nevertheless, one of the best books I've read in my life.

Just started this one.....

A book that I did not want to end, beautifully written, poignant, funny, deep and intellectually challenging. How sad that this is the author's only book.Set in Poland in the Communist era, it is the story of an adolescent's unrequited love for his French teacher. In the telling, great pleasure is taken, in a way that only one who has experienced it can, in satirising the government controlled education system and the inflexibility of the regime and its officials. But, beyond this, it is the

One of the best books I have ever read. The story in itself is gripping and the communist setting is very interesting, but the biggest asset is the language - lyrical and poetic. Sadly the English translation doesn't do it justice, but still - an absolute must-read!

Beautifully written and yet disappointing. The main character seems like a fake figure, not a real person. Numerous stories, not connected to the main plot, make it hard to follow. I got stuck in the middle and don't think I want to continue.