SOURCE: A review of Bohin Manor, in World Literature Today, Vol. 65, No. 3, Summer, 1991, p. 514.

In the following review, Wilson draws thematic parallels between Bohin Manor and Konwicki's other works.

Tadeusz Konwicki, a prolific writer with a tendency obsessively to return to his roots in formerly Polish Lithuania, has in the last decade become a major spokesman for his compatriots' sense of collective despair and impotence. Now that the Soviet Union is no longer inclined to play its traditional role of oppressor vis-à-vis its long-suffering but always unbending western neighbor, one wonders what will become the new target for Konwicki's acerbic wit and biting irony. Bohin Manor represents a daring attempt to conjure up a person, the writer's own grandmother Helena Konwicki, and a past epoch. The genre he chooses resembles the historical romance; the sometimes turgid style recalls modernism, as does the imagery, which also suggests magic...