| Description |
xi, 403 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One -- Jerzy Stempowski -- The Smugglers' Library -- Essay for Cassandra -- Stanislaw Vincenz -- An Encounter with the Hasidim -- Jozef Czapski -- Paradise Lost -- Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz -- Dostoevsky -- Jozef Wittlin -- Sorrow and Grandeur of Exile -- Part Two -- Stanslaw Ignacy Witkiewicz -- On a New Type of Play -- Bruno Schulz -- An Essay for S. I. Wikiewicz -- Afterword to Kafka's The Trial -- K. A. Jelenski -- Avant-Garde and Revolution -- Zbigniew Herbert -- Defense of the Templars -- Boleslaw Micinski -- Portrait of Kant -- Zygmunt Kubiak -- Pascal -- From Saint Augustine -- Andrzej Kijowski -- Postscript to Saint Augustine's Confessions -- Part Three -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec -- Aphorisms -- Jan Blonski -- The Poor Poles Look at the Ghetto -- Gustaw Herling -- The Shadow Hour -- Aleksander Wat -- Reading Proust in Lubyanka -- Jan Kott -- Journey to the East -- Stanislaw Lem -- Reflections on My Life -- Leszek Kolakowski -- Modernity on Endless Trial -- Jerzy Grotowski -- Performer -- Witold Gombrowicz -- Selections from Diary -- Czeslaw Milosz -- Nobel Prize Lecture -- Part Four -- Stanislaw Baranczak -- Tongue-Tied Eloquence: Notes on Language, Exile, and Writing -- Wojciech Karpinski -- The Blazon of Exile -- Adam Zagajewski -- Selections from "The Little Larousse" -- Adam Michnik -- Don Quixote and Invective -- Notes on Contributors |
| Subject |
English essays.
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Polish essays -- 20th century -- Translations into English.
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| Author |
Kott, Jan.
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| LC no. |
90034265 |
| ISBN |
0810108623 |
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0810108631 (paperback) |
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