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Köp båda 2 för 652 krDen polske poeten Aleksander Wat (1900 - 1967) var årsbarn med förra seklet, och hans biografi och dikt är fyllda av det som kom att måla tiden mörkare. Han växte upp i ett judiskt hem i Warszawa med en katolsk barnflicka och visade tidigt intress...
In My Century the great Polish poet Aleksander Wat provides a spellbinding account of life in Eastern Europe in the midst of the terrible twentieth century. Based on interviews with Nobel Prize winner Czeslaw Milosz, My Century describes the artis...
"Wat . . . was a central figure in Polish modernism and this--his 1927 book of speculative stories--comes as a revelation. . . . The style is quick, syncopated, and piquant (excellently rendered by Vallee), with Wat capable of richer tones as well. . . . Wat's stories [indicate] the special nature of the Mitteleuropisch Expressionism that flourished--however briefly--in a literature we still know so little about." --Kirkus Reviews "One of the most original, fascinating, and curious figures in twentieth-century Polish literature, Wat left behind an oeuvre which is salient, artistically accomplished, and influential . . . with its shifting narrative perspectives, wild imagination combining the trivial and the fantastic, and highly 'subjective' lyrical style, [Lucifer Unemployed] is a unique and important contribution to the twentieth-century evolution of the short story and fiction and general." --Stanislaw Baranczak
Aleksander Wat, (born Aleksander Chwat) (1 May 1900 - 29 July 1967) was a Polish poet, writer and art theoretician, one of the precursors of Polish futurism movement in early 1920s. Czeslaw Milosz received the Nobel Prize in literature in 1980. Lillian vallee is the translator of the three-volume Diary of Witold Gombrowicz.