English-Polish
English-Polish

Author: Kazimierz Bulas

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2020-05-05

Total Pages: 1052

ISBN-13: 3112313615

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Caviar and Ashes
Caviar and Ashes

Author: Marci Shore

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 959

ISBN-13: 0300128622

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""In the elegant capital city of Warsaw, the editor Mieczyslaw Grydzewski would come with his two dachshunds to a cafe called Ziemianska."" Thus begins the history of a generation of Polish literati born at the ""fin de siecle,"" They sat in Cafe Ziemianska and believed that the world moved on what they said there. ""Caviar and Ashes"" tells the story of the young avant-gardists of the early 1920s who became the radical Marxists of the late 1920s. They made the choice for Marxism before Stalinism, before socialist realism, before Marxism meant the imposition of Soviet communism in Poland. It ended tragically. Marci Shore begins with this generation's coming of age after the First World War and narrates a half-century-long journey through futurist manifestos and proletarian poetry, Stalinist terror and Nazi genocide, a journey from the literary cafes to the cells of prisons and the corridors of power. Using newly available archival materials from Poland and Russia, as well as from Ukraine and Israel, Shore explores what it meant to live Marxism as a European, an East European, and a Jewish intellectual in the twentieth century.

Winter Dialogue
Winter Dialogue

Author: Tomas Venclova

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9780810117266

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This collection of thirty poems may be compared to the critical essays that have made Venclova famous. Venclova's major poetic accomplishment is his linking of intimate experience and historical incident in poems that are intensely contemporary at the same time as they reach back to the ethnic roots of an entire generation. Diana Senechal's deft translation from the Lithuanian - done in collaboration with the author - preserves both Venclova's lyric voice and the complex stanzaic patterns for which his poetry is known in his native country. Featuring an insightful introduction by the late Joseph Brodsky, and a fascinating exhange between Venclova and Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz about the city of their respective youths.

Visions of the East
Visions of the East

Author: Matthew Bernstein

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 9780813522951

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Essays on orientalism in American and European cinema

Postcolonial Europe? Essays on Post-Communist Literatures and Cultures
Postcolonial Europe? Essays on Post-Communist Literatures and Cultures

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-07-28

Total Pages: 405

ISBN-13: 9004303855

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This collective monograph analyzes post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe through the paradigm of postcoloniality. Based on the assumption that both Western and Soviet imperialism emerged from European modernity, the book is a contribution to the development of a global postcolonial discourse based on a more extensive and nuanced geohistorical comparativism. It suggests that the inclusion of East-Central Europe in European identity might help resolve postcolonialism’s difficulties in coming to terms with both postcolonial and neo-colonial dimensions of contemporary Europe. Analyzing post-communist identity reconstructions under the impact of transformative political, economic and cultural experiences such as changes in perception of time and space (landscapes, cityscapes), migration and displacement, collective memory and trauma, objectifying gaze, cultural self-colonization, and language as a form of power, the book facilitates a mutually productive dialogue between postcolonialism and post-communism. Together the studies map the rich terrain of contemporary East-Central European creative writing and visual art, the latter highlighted through accompanying illustrations.