Ryszard Kapuściński Nowacka, Beata; Ziątek, Zygmunt; Davidson, Lindsay
2023
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In the first posthumous monograph on Ryszard Kapuściński's life and work, Beata Nowacka and Zygmunt Ziątek confront the mixed reception of the writer's use of the Polish concept of literary ...reportage, located on the border between journalism and artistic prose, and identify this tension as the driving force behind Kapuściński's legacy.
Devoted to the work of Cyprian Norwid, one of the most outstanding Polish authors. The impact of his oeuvre does not fade, as he addresses fundamental and timeless issues, such as the moral and ...spiritual condition of man or his place in the world and history. The book contains interpretations of various works by Norwid.
This book shows the complexity of the so-called "Jewish question" in nineteenth-century Congress Poland from the perspective of writer Bolesław Prus. The book traces Prus' evolving worldview toward ...Jews, from his support of the Assimilation Program in his early years to his eventual support of Zionism.
Written in 1933 by a Polish reporter travelling across Mandate Palestine, this book is an eye-witness account of the early stages in formation of the state and nation of Israel, as well as a ...collection of founding myths. It extends the historical perspective beyond the immediate context of the current debates in and outside Israel.
This first edition of the collected critical prose of Anna Frajlich, scholar of Polish literature and culture and award-winning Polish poet, presents comparative studies of major modern Polish ...writers, including Choromański, Grynberg, Herbert, Milosz, Schulz, Szymborska, and Wittlin.
Bolesław Prus and the Jews shows the complexity of the
so-called "Jewish question" in nineteenth-century Congress Poland
and especially its significance in Prus' social concept, reflected
in his ...extensive body of journalistic work, fiction, and treatises.
The book traces Prus' evolving worldview toward Jews, from his
support of the Assimilation Program in his early years to his
eventual support of Zionism. These contrasting ideas show us the
complexity of the discourse on Jewish issues from the individual
perspective of a significant writer of the time, as well as the
dynamics of the Jewish modernization process in a "non-existent"
partitioned Poland. The portrait of Prus that emerges is
surprisingly ambivalent.
The book is the third volume of an extensive four-volume monograph devoted to the work of Cyprian Norwid (1821–1883), one of the most outstanding Polish authors. The impact of Norwid’s oeuvre does ...not fade, as he addresses fundamental and timeless issues, such as the moral and spiritual condition of man or his place in the world and history, and seeks to answer universal questions. The book contains an extensive selection of interpretations made by eminent researchers, who represent different approaches to Norwid’s works: his poems, short stories, dramas and lithographs.
