Wat Aleksander (122 results)

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Oversized paperback published by Norton, 1990. Autobiography of the Polish writer and poet. 406 pages with index and a section of photos, 6" x 9-1/4". No creases to the cover or spine. No writing on the text pages, no former ownership marks. Not a remainder, not a library discard copy. Edges of the text block have some faint age foxing dots. Attahced photos are of the copy we have in our inventory.…

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Paperback is generally clean throughout with minor spot/stain on top page ends that bleeds through to upper margins of first 85 pages. This stain is small and hardly noticeable. Text is clear and bright. Edges are square with very minor bumps to corners. Binding is tight and strong. Foreword by Czeslaw Milosz.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. 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. …

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. An intellectual and spiritual self-portrait by one of the most important Polish writers of the twentieth century, this companion to Aleksander Wat's memoir My Century is a moving testimony on pain and suffering and their relationship to thought and wisdom.Aleksander Wat's Diary Without Vowels is an enigmatic text found among the poet's papers after his death, typed on loose leaf sheets, partly in code, and deciphered by his widow, Ola. Written in Paris and Berkeley, California, from October 1963 to May 1965-a period partially overlapping with the conversations with Czeslaw Milosz that led to Wat's renowned memoir My Century-the diary charts Wat's struggle with the pain and illness which plagued him in the post-war years, with the joys and difficulties of life in emigration. Lit by flashes of comedy and lyricism, it renders Wat's stubborn fight to recover a sense of self from the storm of history and give a true shape to his fate as a poet and a man.An indispensable companion to My Century, Diary Without Vowels is hailed by Wat's biographer Tomas Venclova as "one of the most refined and intriguing examples of self-analysis in world literature."Diary Without Vowels is published with the support of the POLAND Translation Programme. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. 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. …

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Northwestern University Press 1990-02-01 00:00:00 Binding: Trade Paperback VG. in stiff wraps dj. foreword by Czeslaw Milosz 123. Trade pb edition. 8vo.

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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. translated edition. 123 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. First Ed; First Printing indicated. First Ed; First Printing indicated. Near Fine in Wraps: shows only the most minute indications of use; binding square and secure; text clean. Just a hint of wear to extremities; mildest rubbing. Very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 8vo. 407pp. Trade Paperback. Published years after Wat's death, this remarkable transcription of his taped memoirs sears the imagination. Like Dostoyevsky and Solzhenitsyn, Wat records the life of a political prisoner with agonizing precision, texturing his recall with comic and compassionate portraits of his fellow prisoners and their guards. But Wat's genius lies beyond memorable evocation of place or even portraiture. His work is subtitled an "odyssey," and its true force transpires through the political and spiritual implications of his journeys among 13 Polish and Russian prisons during the 1930s and 1940s. Wat begins as a Communist and Jew and ends as an anti-Communist and Christian who still affirms his Jewishness. Above all, he defends his inner life against monstrous efforts to reduce it to time and trivia.…