Four Decades of Polish Essays - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810108631 ISBN 13: 9780810108639

Publisher: Northwestern Univ Pr, 1990

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Jan Kott was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1914. In 1969 he left Poland for the United States. He received the 1985 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for The Theater of Essence (Northwestern University Press, 1984).

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This collection, remarkable in its depth and diversity, offers a fine sampling of the writings (many appearing in English for the first time) by distinguished Polish authors, artists and philosophers, some still living in their native land, others emigres. Kott's ( Shakespeare Our Contemporary ) selections range beyond uniquely Polish concerns, from a sympathetic look at Hasidism to the relevance of St. Augustine for the modern world. Aleksander Wat remembers the spiritual strength he drew from books when incarcerated in Lubyanka Prison, and Jerzy Lec devises a list of barbed aphorisms ("Illiterates have to dictate"). Art critic K. A. Jelenski relates how Russian political and artistic radicals parted ways after the revolution. There is an autobiographical piece from science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem and poet Czeslaw Milosz's Nobel Prize acceptance speech. In a powerful essay, Jan Blonsky shows the necessity and complexity of looking at Polish responsiblity in the genocide of Eastern European Jewry. For the reflective reader, this volume holds many challenges and rewards.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Northwestern Univ Pr
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0810108631
• ISBN 13: 9780810108639
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 403
• Editor: Kott Jan