In the corridor of Soviet time – Liberation

Tadeusz, the narrator of Bulbs thieveslives in Poland, in Opole; But the text does not target realism. The story of this character opens thus, « Listen, I’ll tell you how my mother jumped. » It is a song that recounts a bygone era, experienced by Tadeusz in the late 1970s, or in the early 1980s. When he speaks, or the pen, he is the age of knowing what the Second World War were, the birth of the Soviet bloc, the creation of the RDA, that of Solidarity, and on all this, it has its little idea. He starts between what works, what is reasonable, and what does not work – the communist system, first of all. Tadeusz draws up an inventory of what was and what was missing at his home and in his country, in joint countries and to the Berlin Wall. His childhood spent with loving parents who loved himself a « rod »a very high, very ugly building, similar to so many others. There was a 5,000 -meter corridor in the building that roamed the attic, there were broken windows and glass shards on the ground; The place gave off a very unpleasant smell because of the human excrement that littered it. Noise escaped from the apartments. At the bottom of the building there were butts, pee, clothes put to dry and which had gone. The Poles also missed, at that time, food, money, justice, freedom,