{"title":"Kazimierz Brandys","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"warsaw-diary-1978-81-book-kazimierz-brandys-9780701129033","title":"A Warsaw Diary, 1978-81","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49537584333073,"sku":"GOR003976752","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51797595947281,"sku":"GOR004413995","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0701129034.jpg?v=1751105803"},{"product_id":"rondo-book-kazimierz-brandys-9781609450045","title":"Rondo","description":"In \u003ci\u003eRondo\u003c\/i\u003e, Kazimierz Brandys eloquently explores many of the obsessions of contemporary literature--politics, war, art, and personal exile--against the backdrop of a touching, enthralling love story. One of the previous century's great literary figures, Brandys quickened the conscience and enriched the writing of the 20th century (\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003ci\u003eRondo\u003c\/i\u003e is the culmination of a career of gripping portrayals of ordinary people in the mode of Socialist Realism that made him an icon. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn his own words, Tom is an insignificant man, powerless to effect changes even in himself let alone in others. He is pathologically normal, with something of Buster Keaton to him. Yet an initially harmless fabrication motivated by his love for Tola, an actress of the Warsaw stage, will move him to center stage in one of the 20th century's most infamous conflicts and will ultimately change the course of history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFollowing the Nazi occupation of Warsaw at the outset of WI, Tola wants to enlist in the Polish Resistance. To protect her, Tom, whose family connections have unexpectedly made him the symbolic heir to Polish nationalism, conscripts Tola into an imaginary political cadre--Rondo. The idea is innocent at first, little more than a flight of Tom's fantasy, but through its own comic momentum, Rondo unexpectedly becomes a major player in the Polish underground. When Tom is drawn into the internal politics of the real Resistance, the results are not only highly entertaining but telling of the eternal follies of war.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49913169838353,"sku":"CIN1609450043G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50432088998161,"sku":"CIN1609450043VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53448034910481,"sku":"GOR004398245","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1609450043.jpg?v=1750992946"},{"product_id":"rondo-book-kazimierz-brandys-9780374252007","title":"Rondo","description":"In \u003ci\u003eRondo\u003c\/i\u003e, Kazimierz Brandys eloquently explores many of the obsessions of contemporary literature--politics, war, art, and personal exile--against the backdrop of a touching, enthralling love story. One of the previous century's great literary figures, Brandys quickened the conscience and enriched the writing of the 20th century (\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003ci\u003eRondo\u003c\/i\u003e is the culmination of a career of gripping portrayals of ordinary people in the mode of Socialist Realism that made him an icon. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn his own words, Tom is an insignificant man, powerless to effect changes even in himself let alone in others. He is pathologically normal, with something of Buster Keaton to him. Yet an initially harmless fabrication motivated by his love for Tola, an actress of the Warsaw stage, will move him to center stage in one of the 20th century's most infamous conflicts and will ultimately change the course of history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFollowing the Nazi occupation of Warsaw at the outset of WI, Tola wants to enlist in the Polish Resistance. To protect her, Tom, whose family connections have unexpectedly made him the symbolic heir to Polish nationalism, conscripts Tola into an imaginary political cadre--Rondo. The idea is innocent at first, little more than a flight of Tom's fantasy, but through its own comic momentum, Rondo unexpectedly becomes a major player in the Polish underground. When Tom is drawn into the internal politics of the real Resistance, the results are not only highly entertaining but telling of the eternal follies of war.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50116168679697,"sku":"CIN0374252009G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50134027010321,"sku":"CIN0374252009A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0374252009.jpg?v=1751102488"},{"product_id":"warsaw-diary-1978-81-book-kazimierz-brandys-9780701128869","title":"A Warsaw Diary, 1978-81","description":"Over the past few years innumerable books have been written about contemporary Poland; yet even the best of them have been essentially journalistic works, written by sympathetic outsiders and doomed to be quickly overtaken by events. A Warsaw Diary is a very different kind of book: subtle, profound, a work of outstanding - and permanent - literary merit by one of Poland's foremost writers. Denounced on Polish television after the imposition of martial law as a subversive document - possession of which carried an automatic prison sentence of up to ten years - it is at once a powerful, wide-ranging personal memoir, and the first eye-witness account of the momentous events of 1978-81 to set them in their historical and political context, subtly alternating between present-day Poland and her melancholy, overshadowed history and literary or philosophical reflections on the Polish character and temperament. Whether he is discussing the role of the Church, continuing anti-Semitism, the German occupation or the Stalinist years, or describing with a novelist's eye the drab, interminable queues in a Warsaw street or thugs breaking up the dissident 'Flying University', Brandys's Diary is a unique, compelling account of the Polish spirit and the Polish dilemma.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50207551881489,"sku":"GOR002578155","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53008227991825,"sku":"GOR005215804","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0701128860.jpg?v=1750743948"},{"product_id":"warsaw-diary-book-kazimierz-brandys-9780394528564","title":"A Warsaw Diary","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51713974108433,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51713974436113,"sku":"CIN0394528565G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0394528565.jpg?v=1750696856"},{"product_id":"paris-new-york-1982-1984-book-kazimierz-brandys-9780394544922","title":"Paris New York 1982 - 1984 #","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53451069817105,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53451070275857,"sku":"CIN0394544927VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780394544922.jpg?v=1776913215"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-kazimierz-brandys.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}