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Exiled Writer with Many Faces Uncovers the Shocking Truth of His Past

Zublinka Among Women, a novel by Robert Wexelblatt, 330 pages, paper, $18.00. Publication date: April 15.

“Loaded with wit, bristling irony, draped in erudition…,” so wrote The New York Times Book Review about Robert Wexelblatt’s work. Now comes a novel of equal intelligence from new Portland, Oregon, publisher, KenArnoldBooks.

Zublinka is a beloved friend, author, and philosopher who, at age seventy, lives a rich and varied life of mind and spirit. Actually, he lives several lives, writing poems and stories under pseudonyms, two of them female. He is also engaged by the lives of others. His dear friend Julia is having distressing marital difficulties. Julia’s daughter, whom he calls George, adores him. A feminist philosopher condemns and flirts with him.

The story hidden in this chronicle of Zublinka’s life is far from ordinary. As a teacher in a country behind the Iron Curtain, Zublinka claimed responsibility for a subversive pamphlet he did not write—and it led to his fleeing to the West. The past continues to weigh on Zublinka, who left behind the life he knew and two women he loved—and still loves. He returns after the fall of communist rule to the shocking truth of his memories.

This warm and witty novel shows that goodness is possible but seldom unalloyed. As Zublinka and we learn in the course of this richly rewarding story, the discovery of truth and one's self is the work of a lifetime. Wisdom is possible and hard won.

Robert Wexelblatt is Professor of Humanities at Boston University’s College of General Studies. He is the author of two story collections, Life in the Temperate Zone and The Decline of Our Neighborhood, a book of Essays, Professors at Play, and contributor to dozens of literary journals.

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