<div><p>&quot;The Polish postwar firebrand Andrzej Bursa acquired a reputation as a quick-burning, existentially tormented rebel. . . . Yet Bursa's dark humor and deadpan satire . . . keep utter bleakness at bay.&quot;<i>The Independent</i></p><p>&quot;A revolution against the banality of everyday life.&quot;<i>Gazeta Krakowska</i></p><p>A young university student named Jurek, with no particular ambitions or talents, is adrift. After his doting aunt asks him to perform a small chore, he decides to kill her for no good reason other than, perhaps, boredom.<i>Killing Auntie</i> follows Jurek as he seeks to dispose of the corpsea task more difficult than one might imagineand then falls in love with a girl he meets on a train. Can he tell her what he's done? Will that ruin everything?</p><p>&quot;I'm convincedsimplythat we are all guilty,&quot; says Jurek, and his adventures with nosy neighbors, false-toothed grandmothers, and love-making lynxes shed light on how an entire society becomes involved in the murder and disposal of dear old Auntie. This is a short comedic masterpiece combining elements of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jean-Paul Sartre, Franz Kafka, and Joseph Heller, coming together in the end to produce an unforgettable tale of murder andjust mayberedemption.</p><p><b>Andrzej Bursa</b> was born in 1934 in Krakow, Poland, and died twenty-five years later. In his brief lifetime he composed some of the most original Polish writing of the twentieth century.<i>Killing Auntie</i> is his only novel. His brilliant career and tragic early death established him as a cult figure among restless and disenchanted youth.</p></div>