From the “dreadful safety of America,” he is instantly thrown back to a time before “loneliness covered like night-blue tar.” Jedrowski’s exquisite novel vividly traces the life of immigrant Ludwik Glowacki from his childhood in Poland to that country’s declaration of martial law, which Ludwik hears about on the radio while living in the Slavic community of Greenpoint, Brooklyn. It usually involves reliving profoundly painful memories recalled after a significant period of time before some resolution occurs. Regardless of genre, the form focuses on the past as narrated by the main character. Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain and Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude are exemplary representatives of the concept in novel format. Stone”) and in the short-story collections Hard Candy and One Arm and Other Stories. Tennessee Williams coined the term to refer to “ The Glass Menagerie” and perfected it in other plays (most notably “ A Streetcar Named Desire,” “ Summer and Smoke,” and “ The Roman Spring of Mrs. Tomasz Jedrowski’s seductive coming-of-age debut novel, Swimming in the Dark, reads like a memory play.
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