Polish Writers on Writing: The Writers World Series
Edited by Adam Zagajewski
Featuring twentieth-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 literature 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 Second World War, under the inhibiting and numbing Communist reign, and finally within a free society, but one freighted with the weight of its history.
No common denominator, not even the easy one of "Polish twentieth-century authors," renders justice to the variety of talents, styles, and experiences in Polish Writers on Writing. "All of the writers have lived in the same house," Zagajewski says," in the house of a shared history and a shared language, but the windows of their apartments face quite different directions."
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Stanislaw Baranczak · Miron Bialoszewski · Stanislaw Brzozowski · Jozef Czapski · Witold Gombrowicz · Julia Hartwig · Zbigniew Herbert · Gustaw Herling · Pawel Huelle · Anna Kamienska · Ryszard Krynicki · Boleslaw Lesmian · Czeslaw Milosz · Slawomir Mrosek · Tadeusz Peiper · Julian Przybos · Tadeusz Rosewicz · Adolf Rudnicki · Bruno Schulz · Jerzy Stempowski · Jan Jozef Szczepanski · Wislawa Szymborska · Aleksander Wat · Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz · Adam Zagajewski
The Writer's World features writers from around the globe discussing what it means to write, and to be a writer, in many different parts of the world. The series collects a broad range of material and provides access for the first time to a body of work never before gathered in English. Edward Hirsch, the series editor, is international acclaimed as a poet and critic. He is the president of the John Simon Guggenheim foundation.
"What an inspired way to engage other cultures: through the meditations of writers on the subject that they know best—writing. And what we discover in the essays collected in The Writer's World is that for all our seeming differences and genuine divisions we are bound by words, which in every language offer windows through which to glimpse the heart of the matter: what it meas to be alive."
—CHRISTOPHER MERRILL
"The Writer's World is a wonderfully intriguing and exciting series. Each book is like a conference of great writers and thinkers brought together to consider matters essential to culture and society. There's nothing like it."
—C.K. WILLIAMS
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI was born in Lwow, Poland, in 1945. His books of poetry in English include Tremor, Canvas, Mysticism for Beginners and Without End. He is also the author of a memoir, Another Beauty, and the prose collections Two Cities and Solitude and Solidarity. Among his honors and awards are a fellowship from the Berliner Kunstlerprogramm, the Kurt Tucholsky Prize, a Prix de la Liberte, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Neustadt Literary Prize. He is a professor of literature at the University of Chicago. He lives in Krakow and Chicago.
Publishing House: Trinity University Press, San Antonio 2007
SoftCover book measuring 6.0" x 9.0"
280 pages, index
English Language Version
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