Polish Writers on WritingAdam Zagajewski Featuring 20th-century writers, including Nobel Prize winners Czeslaw Milosz and Wislawa Szymborska, as well as celebrated poet Zbigniew Herbert and internationally renowned Bruno Schulz, this collection captures the brilliance and originality of a literary culture rightly considered one of the most important and influential of our time. These writers are branded by the political realities of their country -- creating literature out of the brutality of the World War II, under the numbing and inhibiting Communist reign, and finally within a free society, but one freighted with the weight of its history. |
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Letter to Zeno | 6 |
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz | 16 |
Rules of the S I Witkiewicz PortraitPainting Firm | 22 |
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2007 Alissa Valles artist beauty become believe Bolesław Leśmian born Bruno Schulz called century color consciousness contemporary create creative criticism culture Czapski Czesław Miłosz death diary doctor's wife Dostoevsky dream everything existence experience expression eyes face fact feel friends hand happy human imagination intellectual Jan Józef Szczepański Józef Józef Czapski kind Kraków language letters literary literature live look matter meaning nature never one's oneself pain painter painting perhaps person philosophy poem poet poetic poetry Poland Polish literature Polish writers portrait prose readers realism reality seems sense sometimes Soviet speak spirit Stanisław Stanisław Barańczak Stanisław Brzozowski Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz suffering Szymborska Tadeusz Peiper Tadeusz Różewicz talking thing thought tion Translated by Alissa truth understand visible universe vision Warsaw Wilcza Street Wisława Szymborska Witkiewicz Witold Gombrowicz words write wrote Zbigniew Herbert