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A Dream (Paperback)
Felicja Kruszewska; Edited by Jadwiga Kosicka
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R1,383
Discovery Miles 13 830
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The translation of Felicja Kruszewska's A Dream introduces a major
play by a twentieth-century female playwright to the
English-speaking world. On March 7, 1927 A Dream - a large-scale
expressionistic drama by an unknown poet - burst on the Polish
theatrical scene in a dazzling debut production by the young actor
Edmund Wiercinski, who would become one of the outstanding
directors of his time. The play's hallucinatory visions of the rise
of fascism and the heroine's longing for a providential savior on a
white horse spoke directly to Polish audiences about their deepest
anxieties. During the next two years A Dream received three
additional stagings and became the subject of lively debate and
controversy. The play, which has been successfully revived in 1974,
is an outstanding example of European expressionism. The volume
also contains An Excursion to the Museum, by the contemporary
Polish poet, playwright, and short-story writer Tadeusz Rozewicz. A
disturbing account of an utterly mundane visit to Auschwitz, the
tale is a brilliant example of the playwright's technique of poetic
collage.
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A Dream (Hardcover)
Felicja Kruszewska; Edited by Jadwiga Kosicka
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R4,117
Discovery Miles 41 170
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The translation of Felicja Kruszewska's A Dream introduces a major play by a twentieth-century female playwright to the English-speaking world. On March 7, 1927 A Dream - a large-scale expressionistic drama by an unknown poet - burst on the Polish theatrical scene in a dazzling debut production by the young actor Edmund Wiercinski, who would become one of the outstanding directors of his time. The play's hallucinatory visions of the rise of fascism and the heroine's longing for a providential savior on a white horse spoke directly to Polish audiences about their deepest anxieties. During the next two years A Dream received three additional stagings and became the subject of lively debate and controversy. The play, which has been successfully revived in 1974, is an outstanding example of European expressionism. The volume also contains An Excursion to the Museum, by the contemporary Polish poet, playwright, and short-story writer Tadeusz Rozewicz. A disturbing account of an utterly mundane visit to Auschwitz, the tale is a brilliant example of the playwright's technique of poetic collage.
In the first English translation of Still Alive, the renowned
Polish essayist and theater critic Jan Kott recounts his perilous
odyssey through the endless political crises of Eastern Europe in
the mid-twentieth-century, illuminating not only the fate of a
whole generation of intellectuals, but also his main concern: how
to make sense of one's own existence As a portrayal of turbulent
times, the book is priceless, in particular because of its
extraordinarily vivid depictions of the atmosphere of everyday life
under Communism.-Stanislaw Baranczak, Harvard University An
incisive and vivid testimony of a gifted and zestful survival,
Still Alive offers a suspenseful story of its author's harrowingly
narrow escapes in Nazi-occupied Poland, and an illuminating account
of his vicissitudes under the postwar Communist regime. That this
widely acclaimed memoir is now available in English is good news
indeed.-Victor Erlich, professor emeritus of Russian literature,
Yale University Written by a man with literary taste and a sense of
the dramatic who knows how to tell a story without ever losing a
sense of humor, taste for life, and a kind of gaiety.-Nicole Zand,
Le Monde The entire writing resonates with life and its mysteries,
some resolved, some not...The rigors and victories of Kott's life
somehow offer sustenance to all who question existence.-Library
Journal A splendid evocation by an eminent theater critic and
philosopher of what it meant to be alive-sometimes barely-during
the tremendous upheavals in Europe caused by the Second World War
and the installation of the Communist regime in Poland...Kott shows
an unerring sense of the telling detail that imprints a scene in
the memory. A riveting book.-Kirkus Reviews
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Your Murderer (Hardcover)
Vassily Aksyonov; Edited by Daniel Gerould, Jadwiga Kosicka
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R2,705
Discovery Miles 27 050
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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From Russia comes this ironic, satirical, multi-layered, modern
pop-art parable by Vassily Aksyonov. Your Murderer is a richly
grotesque hodgepodge of different linguistic levels that defies all
rules and mixes a powerful cocktail out of traditional slogans,
invented obscentities, foreign words and phrases, terminology from
sports and heavy drinking, and pure nonsense.
Daniel Gerould is Lucille Lortel Distinguished Professor of Theater
and Comparative Literature at the City University of New York. He
is the Editor of Slavic and East European Performance and of
harwood academic publishers's Polish and East European Theater
Archive series.
Your Murderer comes from Russia and is an ironic, satirical,
multi-layered, modern pop-art parable - richly grotesque and on
different linguistic levels. that defies all rules, mixing a
powerful cocktail out of traditional slogans, invented
obscentities, foreign words and phrases, terminology from sports
and heavy drinking, and pure nonsense.
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