Warsaw Diary. 1978-1981 e-bog
86,52 DKK
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Over the past few years innumerable books have been written about contemporary Poland; yet even the best of them have been essentially journalistic works, written by sympathetic outsiders and doomed to be quickly overtaken by events. A Warsaw Diary is a very different kind of book: subtle, profound, a work of outstanding and permanent literary merit by one of Poland s foremost writers. Deno...
E-bog
86,52 DKK
Forlag
Vintage Digital
Udgivet
31 august 2013
Længde
260 sider
Genrer
1DTP
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781448155439
Over the past few years innumerable books have been written about contemporary Poland; yet even the best of them have been essentially journalistic works, written by sympathetic outsiders and doomed to be quickly overtaken by events. A Warsaw Diary is a very different kind of book: subtle, profound, a work of outstanding and permanent literary merit by one of Poland s foremost writers. Denounced on Polish television after the imposition of martial law as a subversive document possession of which carried an automatic prison sentence of up to ten years it is at once a powerful, wide-ranging personal memoir, and the first eye-witness account of the momentous events of 1978-81 to set them in their historical and political context, subtly alternating between present-day Poland and her melancholy, overshadowed history and literary or philosophical reflections on the Polish character and temperament. Whether he is discussing the role of the Church, continuing anti-Semitism, the German occupation or the Stalinist years, or describing with a novelist s eye the drab, interminable queues in a Warsaw street or thugs breaking up the dissident Flying University , Brandys s Diary is a unique, compelling account of the Polish spirit and the Polish dilemma.