My Century by Aleksander Wat
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 artistic, sexual, and political experimentation --in which Wat was a major participant-- that followed the end of World War I: an explosion of talent and ideas which, he argues, in some ways helped to open the door to the destruction that the Nazis and Bolsheviks soon visited upon the world. But Wat's book is at heart a story of spiritual struggle and conversion. He tells of his separation during World War I from his wife and young son, of his confinement in the Soviet prison system, of the night when the sound of far-off laughter brought on a vision of the devil in history. It was then, Wat writes, that I began to be a believer.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.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781590170656 |
| ISBN 10 | 1590170652 |
| Title | My Century |
| Author | Aleksander Wat |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The New York Review of Books, Inc |
| Year published | 2003-12-31 |
| Number of pages | 448 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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