User:SarahBarberis/Rondo (Novel)

Rondo is a novel by Kazimierz Brandys first published in 1982. The novel is a long corrective letter the protagonist Tom sends to a journal, responding to an inaccurate account of Rondo's war activity. Rondo was in fact a secret undeground fabricated by Tom in Nazi-occupied Warsaw for the only purpose of creating a role for his lover Tola, a flaming patriot, whose successful acting career has been damaged by occupation. The imaginary organization though briefly take a life of its own and becomes an effective secret group. In the end, the fictitious resistance group leads to real sabotage, death and imprisonment. The English translation was first published in the U.S.A. by Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1989 and it was reissued in April 2011 by Europa Editions (USA).