This is the first installment of a two-volume work in which Zladar (Slavic history, U. of Sydney, Australia) explores the cultural creation, in the poems of Ivan Mazuranic (1814-1890) and Petar II Pet
This is the second installment of a two-volume work in which Zladar (Slavic history, U. of Sydney, Australia) explores the cultural creation, in the poems of Ivan Mazuranic (1814-1890) and Petar II Pe
A Kind of Testament is part autobiography and part justification of the life's work of one of Poland's most important novelists and playwrights. Written in France in 1968, this personal testimony is m
Ryszard Kapuscinski is considered among the most important journalists of the 20th century.What was not known in the English-speaking world, however, was that Ryszard Kapuscinski was also a poet. I W
Inspired by “Mrs. Tolstoy and Mrs. Dostoevsky, whose biographies about their husbands have now been published in Prague,” Bohumil Hrabal decided to produce his own autobiographical work, o
Inspired by “Mrs. Tolstoy and Mrs. Dostoevsky, whose biographies about their husbands have now been published in Prague,” Bohumil Hrabal decided to produce his own autobiographical work, ostensibly fi
Stories within stories, a few contemporary fables, a hint of the narrative complexity of Borges, a whiff of the gritty realism of pre- and post-communist life in Eastern Europe—these are the elements
In a comic masterpiece following the misadventures of a simple but hugely ambitious waiter in pre-World War II Prague, who rises to wealth only to lose everything with the onset of Communism, Bohumil
They are widely read, thoughtful in their consideration of the changes in their own culture over the past decades, curious, fascinated and wise. This collection of articles by leading writers in Polis
“The startling juxtaposition of sensual and brutal histories, of human and animal flesh, of the experience of war and of writing is Rózewicz’s great achievement throughout twenty vo
At the height of the Nazi extermination campaign in the Warsaw Ghetto, a young Jewish woman, Irena, seeks the protection of her former lover, a young architect, Jan Malecki. By taking her in, he puts
During the Nazi extermination campaign in the Warsaw Ghetto, architect Jan Malecki takes in a young Jewish woman - and former lover - Irena Lilien, putting his own life and the safety of his family at
Legends of Modernity, now available in English for the first time, brings together some of Czeslaw Milosz's early essays and letters, composed in German-occupied Warsaw during the winter of 1942-43."
A lyrical, mysterious tour through Prague mixes history and legend with everyday reality, a child’s reflections on the Christian concept of sinfulness lead him to resolve to sin “just a little bit,” d
The austerity of Marzanna Kielar’s mindscape compels with its monochromy. Her poems insistently return to northern Poland cataloguing the sea, fog, wind, lakes, rivers, woods, fields, and crows. “My f
Woods (translation and textual studies, Dublin City U.) investigates Czech writer Kundera's claim that for him, translation is everything--an attitude he shares with other bi-lingual exiled writers. A
Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) felt that part of his role as a poet and critic was to bear witness to bloodshed and terror as well as to beauty. He survived the Soviet invasion of his beloved Lithuania, e
