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General Piesc or the Case of the Forgotten Mission Paperback - 1976
by Themerson, Stefan
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- Title General Piesc or the Case of the Forgotten Mission
- Author Themerson, Stefan
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Edition
- Language ENG
- Publisher Gaberbocchus Press, London
- Date 1976
- ISBN 9780852471135
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GENERAL PIESC or the case of the forgotten mission
by THEMERSON, STEFAN
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- Paperback
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- 1st edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780852471135 / 0852471130
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London: Gaberbocchus Press, 1976. Printed by Poets' & Painters' Press. A story in which the General finds happiness only when he has forgotten his mission. Stefan Themerson's General Piesc is an allegorical novella full of humor, irony, and sarcasm - a well-written and highly entertaining story. Although he is known for his philosophical and controversial works Mr. Themerson's book is not problematical or demanding in any way neither stylistically nor intellectually. In less than fifty pages the author succeeds in narrating - but not explaining - a strange incident that happens to a retired Polish general who lives in London alone after his wife had run away with another man. The story begins with General Piesc winning a large sum of money (£ 129,740) in the pools. Instead of enjoying life as people expected him to, he decides to accomplish a mission which he had been planning for twenty-five years. After he equips himself with a new mackintosh 'with exceptionally large…
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