#RivetingReads: Ursula Phillips Recommends THE ROMANCE OF TERESA HENNERT by Zofia Nałkowska

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The Romance of Teresa Hennert (1924) is Nałkowska’s critique of the Polish interwar state highly relevant to world politics today.

By Ursula Phillips

The Romance of Teresa Hennert

by Zofia Nałkowska

translated by Megan Thomas and Ewa Małachowska-Pasek

published by Northern Illinois University Press (2014)

Ursula Phillips is a literary historian and translator from Polish. Her translation of Zofia Nałkowska’s novel Choucas (1927) won the Found in Translation Award 2015.

Read about Nałkowska’s other books: Boundary and Choucas.

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