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Witold Gombrowicz, novelist, essayist, and playwright, was one of the most important Polish writers of the twentieth century. But his works were considered scandalous and subversive by the ruling powe...
POLISH MEMORIES
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Although Witold Gombrowicz wrote a three-volume Diary, it offers few facts about his early life in Poland. Polish Memories - a series of autobiographical sketches Gombrowicz composed for Radio Free Eu...
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DIARY
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Translated by Lillian Vallee Just before the outbreak of World War II, young Witold Gombrowicz left his home in Poland and set sail for South America. In 1953, still living as an expatriate in Ar...
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Memoirs of a Warsaw Ghetto Fighter
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Translated from the Hebrew and edited by Barbara Harshav "In the first three days [of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising], the Germans didn't take a single Jew out of the buildings. After their attempts...
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STILL ALIVE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY
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In the first English translation of Still Alive, the renowned Polish essayist and theater critic Jan Kott recounts his perilous odyssey through the endless political crises of Eastern Europe in the mi...
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KATYN A CRIME WITHOUT PUNISHMENT ANNALS OF COMMUNISM SERIES
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The 14,500 Polish army officers, police, gendarmes, and civilians taken prisoner by the Red Army when it invaded eastern Poland in September 1939 were held in three special NKVD camps and executed at ...
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CAVIAR AND ASHES - A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Markxism, 1918-1968
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Review Jan T. Gross 1 : "This book is utterly original, and its scholarship-and I don't use this word lightly-is breathtaking. Shore has produced a penetrating study of a host of the twentieth ce...
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COSMOS
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Translated by:Danuta Borchardt From Booklist *Starred Review* This dark, surreal tale of two holiday boarders in a Polish country house explores the bizarre lengths to which people at loose en...
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