Swimmg the Dark: ‘One of the most astonishg ntemporary gay novels we have ever read … A masterpiece’ – Attu : Jedrowski, Tomasz: Books

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Swimmg the Dark: ‘One of the most astonishg ntemporary gay novels we have ever read … A masterpiece’ – Attu : Jedrowski, Tomasz: Books

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BOOK REVIEW: SWIMMG THE DARK BY TOMASZ JęDROWSKI ★★★★1/2

A young gay man enters to a clanste affair the reprsive polil climate of munist Poland the early 1980s. * swimming in the dark gay *

Beg gay Poland that era was more or ls unmentnable, a fact that Ludwik rents and Janz accepts. The dranian measur ed by thori to disurage homosexualy Communist Poland are ightful, but not so different om the harsh antigay bias prevalent Ameri jt a few s earlier. I've been readg as many gay centric books as possible this past month and fished this last night.

But when they return to town, the two men mt make their way a homophobic world filled wh opprsn and hypocrisy. Racg briefs are also rigr for swimmers, water polo players and divers, and wily embraced by the gay muny.

He has been cril of a French gay publitn for not treatg gays as ordary people. Ludwik, the stunt narrator, out at a time when gays had no role mols to follow.

SWIMMG THE DARK: ‘ONE OF THE MOST ASTONISHG NTEMPORARY GAY NOVELS WE HAVE EVER READ … A MASTERPIECE’ – ATTU PAPERBACK – 11 FEBARY 2021

To be sure, several lerary fés Warsaw and Kraków were open to gay people (Spartac Internatnal Gay Guis listed several), but a sense that they were unr surveillance was palpable. For Jedrowski, a notor precent for stigmatizg homosexuals People’s Poland was Michel Fouult’s vis to Warsaw 1958. He fished The History of Madns but was ensnared a honey trap wh a gay man and expelled om Poland.

The vibrancy of Swimmg the Dark is a love story that laps when homosexualy nnot fd space the 1980s. A broody tale of gay love and life behd the Iron Curta.

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Swimmg the Dark: ‘One of the most astonishg ntemporary gay novels we have ever read … A masterpiece’ – Attu : Jedrowski, Tomasz: Books.

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