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Aleksander Wat
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Author : Tomas Venclova
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 1996-01-01
Aleksander Wat written by Tomas Venclova and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Aleksander Wat was, in many ways, the archetypal Central European intellectual of the mid-twentieth century, a man who experienced and influenced all the tumultuous political and artistic movements of his time. Yet little has been published about him, even in his native Poland. This book is the first account of Wat's turbulent life, accompanied by a thorough analysis of his extraordinary poems and prose works in their diverse periods and genres. Tomas Venclova, himself a poet of international renown, has uncovered numerous new biographical details, made the surprising discovery of an unfinished novel Wat began fifty years ago, and woven together the themes of Wat's life and work. At different times a futurist, surrealist, and Communist fellow traveler, Wat turned away from communism after his imprisonment by the Soviet secret police and became a vociferous spokesman for democracy. Venclova tells Wat's story from his Polish-Jewish upbringing in the early 1900s, his participation in the literary avant-garde in the 1920s, and his work as editor of an influential Communist journal before World War II through his emigration to the West in 1959 and his death in 1967. Venclova argues convincingly that Wat's literary achievement promoted the rejuvenation of Polish and East European letters after the Stalinist era. His broad intellectual influence on many, including Czeslaw Milosz, helped to consolidate the moral and political opposition to totalitarian ideology that has profoundly changed political realities in the late twentieth century.
My Century
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Author : Aleksander Wat
language : en
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2013-01-30
My Century written by Aleksander Wat and has been published by New York Review of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In My Century the great Polish poet Aleksander Wat provides a spellbinding account of life in Eastern Europe in the midst of the terrible twentieth century. Based on interviews with Nobel Prize winner Czeslaw Milosz, My Century describes the artistic, sexual, and political experimentation—in which Wat was a major participant—that followed the end of World War I: an explosion of talent and ideas which, he argues, in some ways helped to open the door to the destruction that the Nazis and Bolsheviks soon visited upon the world. But Wat’s book is at heart a story of spiritual struggle and conversion. He tells of his separation during World War II from his wife and young son, of his confinement in the Soviet prison system, of the night when the sound of far-off laughter brought on a vision of “the devil in history.” “It was then,” Wat writes, “that I began to be a believer.”
With The Skin
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Author : Aleksander Wat
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
With The Skin written by Aleksander Wat and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Poetry categories.
Lucifer Unemployed
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Author : Aleksander Wat
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 1990
Lucifer Unemployed written by Aleksander Wat and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Fiction categories.
In these nine stories the Polish writer Aleksander Wat consistently turns history on its ear in comic reversals reverberating with futurist rhythms and the gently mocking humor of despair. Wat inverts the conventions of religion, politics, and culture to fantastic effect, illuminating the anarchic conditions of existence in interwar Europe. The title story finds a superbly ironic Lucifer wandering the Europe of the late 1920s in search of a mission: what impact can a devil have in a godless time? What is his sorcery in a society far more diablical than the devil himself? Too idealistic for a world full of modern cruelties, the unemployable Lucifer finally finds the only means of guaranteed immortality. In "The Eternally Wandering Jew," steady Jewish conversion to Christianity results in Nathan the Talmudist reigning as Pope Urban IX. The hilarious satire on power, "Kings in Exile," unfolds with the dethroned monarchs of Europe meeting to found their own republic in an uninhabited island in the Indian Ocean.
Aleksander Wat
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Author : Tomas Venclova
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
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Against The Devil In History
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Author : Aleksander Wat
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
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"Collected poems, essays, short stories, and fragmentary writings by Polish poet Aleksander Wat in English translation, annotated and with an introduction"--
Mediterranean Poems
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Author : Aleksander Wat
language : en
Publisher: Ann Arbor, Mich. : Ardis
Release Date : 1977
Mediterranean Poems written by Aleksander Wat and has been published by Ann Arbor, Mich. : Ardis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Poetry categories.
Aleksander Wat
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language : pl
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
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Against The Devil In History
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Author : Aleksander Wat
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-10
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The Sound Of Modern Polish Poetry
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Author : Aleksandra Kremer
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2021-12-07
The Sound Of Modern Polish Poetry written by Aleksandra Kremer and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
An illuminating new study of modern Polish verse in performance, offering a major reassessment of the roles of poets and poetry in twentieth-century Polish culture. WhatÕs in a voice? Why record oneself reading a poem that also exists on paper? In recent decades, scholars have sought to answer these questions, giving due credit to the art of poetry performance in the anglophone world. Now Aleksandra Kremer trains a sharp ear on modern Polish poetry, assessing the rising importance of authorial sound recordings during the tumultuous twentieth century in Eastern Europe. Kremer traces the adoption by key Polish poets of performance practices intimately tied to new media. In Polish hands, tape recording became something different from what it had been in the West, shaped by its distinctive origins behind the Iron Curtain. The Sound of Modern Polish Poetry reconstructs the historical conditions, audio technologies, and personal motivations that informed poetic performances by such luminaries as Czes_aw Mi_osz, Wis_awa Szymborska, Aleksander Wat, Zbigniew Herbert, Miron Bia_oszewski, Anna Swir, and Tadeusz R_ewicz. Through performances both public and private, prepared and improvised, professional and amateur, these poets tested the possibilities of the physical voice and introduced new poetic practices, reading styles, and genres to the Polish literary scene. Recording became, for these artists, a means of announcing their ambiguous place between worlds. KremerÕs is a work of criticism as well as recovery, deploying speech-analysis software to shed light on forgotten audio experimentsÑfrom poetic Òsound postcards,Ó to unusual home performances, to the final testaments of writer-performers. Collectively, their voices reveal new aesthetics of poetry reading and novel concepts of the poetic self.