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To see through the eyes of essayist and dramaturge Jan Kott is to gain in knowledge not just of the theater but also of human culture. Since his Shakespeare Our Contemporary appeared in English in...
To see through the eyes of essayist and dramaturge Jan Kott is to gain in knowledge not just of the theater but also of human culture. Since his Shakespeare Our Contemporary appeared in English in...
Originally published in Poland in 1948, and acclaimed as one of the finest postwar Polish novels, Ashes and Diamonds takes place in the spring of 1945, as the nation is in the throes of its transforma...
Hrabal's postwar classic about a young man's coming of age in German-occupied Czechoslovakia is among his most popular works. Milos Hrma is a timid railroad apprentice who insulates himself with fanta...
Edited & Translated by Stanislaw Baranczak & Clare Cavanagh with a Foreward by Helen Vendler The past thirty years have witnessed some of the most traumatic and inspiring moments in Polish history....
Translated from the Polish by Bill JohnstonThe first US edition of a famous Polish novel, originally published in 1912, which vividly portrays an inchoate country's uprising (186364) against its Rus...
“Nothing of the former world holds true anymore,” Zofia Nalkowskawrote in her Wartime Diaries on 7 May 1943. “Nothing has remained.” The burnig of the Warsaw ghetto has broken Nalkowska’s privileged l...
Though best known as poets, Zbigniew Herbert (1924-1998), Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996), and Adam Zagajewski (b. 1945) also wrote some of the most original prose of this century. It is this prose-remarka...
This fine volume brings together two pieces by Polish journalist Krall. The first, never before available in English, is an eerie, semi-autobiographical novel detailing the narrator's relationship ove...