ANDZIA

ANDZIA

• Publishing Company:

  TIMOF

• Imprint:

• Format:

  ONE SHOT

• Creator(s):

  PIOTR MAńKOWSKI (STORY)

  PRZEMYSłAW TRUśCIńSKI (ART)

• Number of Pages:

  152

• Cover price:

  PLN 74.55

• Publication Date:

  July 2023

• Age:

  ALL AGES

• Fiction/Non-Fiction

  FICTION

• Key words:

  POETRY,

• Summary:

  The heroine of these peculiar, surprising poems written by Bishop Piotr Mańkowski (1866-1933) is a little girl named Andzia. Breaking the rules dictated by adults, Andzia gets pulled into a maelstrom of extraordinary events. Sometimes a poem ends with merely a harmless reprimand, but other times with dismemberment or a lifelong debt. However, each poem’s ending is more humorous than gruesome. And the lessons that can be learned from them is that while it is safer to listen to your elders, disobedient children have the most wonderful adventures.

  The nine poems by Bishop Mańkowski were discovered in Rome in 2007. They were inspired by the work of Heinrich Hoffmann, author of books about ‘Shaggy Peter’ (original: Der Struwwelpeter), who suffered terrible consequences for his unruly behaviour. In Andzia, Mańkowski also polemicises with the moralising works of Stanisław Jachowicz, the most popular Polish fairy tale writer of the 19th century.