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Title: Another Beauty
Author: Adam Zagajewski
ISBN: 9780374176525
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Published: 2000
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 215
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: One of Poland's most important poets, Adam Zagajewski came of age in the Communist Cracow of the 1960s and '70s. In the Beauty of the Other explores this critical period in his life when he was a student of philosophy and psychology and earned his keep lecturing to tired factory workers and Party hacks. It was in Cracow that Zagajewski began writing poetry and joined the Ledgling Polish opposition movement. He offers rare insight into the atmosphere -- both gloomy and prankish -- of the increasingly toothless, faltering Communism, as he presents a mock-heroic epic of dissident tribunes, police informers, naive idealists, and clandestine publishers.
Author: Adam Zagajewski
ISBN: 9780374176525
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Published: 2000
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 215
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: One of Poland's most important poets, Adam Zagajewski came of age in the Communist Cracow of the 1960s and '70s. In the Beauty of the Other explores this critical period in his life when he was a student of philosophy and psychology and earned his keep lecturing to tired factory workers and Party hacks. It was in Cracow that Zagajewski began writing poetry and joined the Ledgling Polish opposition movement. He offers rare insight into the atmosphere -- both gloomy and prankish -- of the increasingly toothless, faltering Communism, as he presents a mock-heroic epic of dissident tribunes, police informers, naive idealists, and clandestine publishers.
But In the Beauty of the Other is also the story of Zagajewski's life as an artist, of his double liberation: first from the official lies and imposed collectivism of the regime and later from the imposed intellectual collectivism of the opposition. This luminous memoir offers a fascinating counterpoint to Zagajewski's poetry.
