Still Life with a Bridle by Zbigniew Herbert
A gathering of artful essays by one of Poland’s most translated post-war writers is here brought to a new audience. Poet and essayist Zbigniew Herbert takes an intriguing look at the cultural, artistic, and aesthetic legacy of 17th-century Holland. These sixteen essays reveal Herbert’s discriminating artistic eye and poetic sensibility, one that revels in irony, humour, and a satirist’s appreciation of the absurd. An inveterate museum-goer, he focuses on the art of the Dutch masters, using it as a stepping-off point for a thoroughly individual and entertaining examination of the foibles, genius, and character of the Dutch people as a whole, from Tulipmania to the devastating stirrings of early capitalism. Part travelogue, the result is an unorthodox and revealing glimpse into the past that gives us a keener understanding not only of a distant people, but of ourselves as well.
Zbigniew Herbert (29 October 1924 in Lwow [then Poland, now Lviv, Ukraine] - 28 July 1998 in Warsaw) was a Polish poet,essayist, drama writer, author of plays, and moralist. A member of the Polish resistance movement, Home Army (AK), during World War II, he is one of the best known and the most translated post-war Polish writers.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781907903496 |
| ISBN 10 | 1907903496 |
| Title | Still Life with a Bridle |
| Author | Zbigniew Herbert |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Notting Hill Editions |
| Year published | 2012-05-31 |
| Number of pages | 216 |
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