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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Wisława Szymborska, Bolesław Prus, Zbigniew Herbert, Józef Czapski, Jerzy Zawieyski, Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, Andrzej Kijowski, Julian Przyboś, Witold Zalewski, Adam Zagajewski, Eliza Orzeszkowa, Andrzej Tadeusz Kijowski, Maria Konopnicka, Jan Stanisław Skorupski, Wojciech Żukrowski, Marek Żuławski, Maciej Parowski, Malwina Garfeinowa-Garska, Adolf Rudnicki, Lech Jęczmyk. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Bolesaw Prus (pronounced: ; Hrubieszów, 20 August 1847 19 May 1912, Warsaw), whose actual name was Aleksander Gowacki, was the foremost figure in Polish literature of the late 19th century, and a distinctive voice in world literature. He adopted the pen name "Prus" from his family coat-of-arms. An indelible mark was left on Prus by his experiences as a 15-year-old soldier in the Polish 1863 Uprising against Imperial Russia, in which he suffered severe injuries and imprisonment. These early experiences may have precipitated the panic disorder and agoraphobia that were to dog him through life. (This was the same uprising whose preparations impinged tragically on the family of Prus' compatriot and fellow future novelist Joseph Conrad.) In 1872 at age 25, in Warsaw, Prus settled into a 40-year journalistic career that focused on science, technology, education, and economic and cultural developmententerprises which retain a universal importance today and which were vital to the survival of a country that had, in the 18th century, been partitioned among three empires. As a sideline, in an effort to appeal to readers' aesthetic sensibilities, Prus wrote short stories. Achieving success with these, he went on to employ a broader canvas: between 1886 and 1895, he completed four major novels on "great questions of our age." Of Prus' novels, two are perenn...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=601880 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Wojciech Jaruzelski, Andrzej Wajda, Bronisław Geremek, Wisława Szymborska, Aleksander Kwaśniewski, Marek Belka, Bolesław Bierut, Jacek Kuroń, Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz, Tadeusz Konwicki, Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Ryszard Kapuściński, Leszek Balcerowicz, Zygmunt Bauman, Danuta Hübner, Andrzej Lepper, Leszek Miller, Władysław Gomułka, Leszek Kołakowski, Józef Cyrankiewicz, Edward Gierek, Sławomir Mrożek, Jakub Berman, Mieczysław Rakowski, Stefan Meller, Adam Rapacki, Zbigniew Messner, Edward Ochab, Czesław Kiszczak, Stanisław Kania, Barbara Blida, Marek Borowski, Józef Oleksy, Karol Modzelewski, Andrzej Olechowski, Henryk Jabłonski, Hilary Minc, Marian Spychalski, Aleksander Zawadzki. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Le général Wojciech Jaruzelski (en API , ), de son nom complet Wojciech Witold Jaruzelski, est un homme politique et militaire polonais né le 6 juillet 1923 à Kurów, province de Lublin. Principal dirigeant de la République populaire de Pologne de 1981 à 1989, il est surtout connu pour le long bras de fer qui l'opposa au syndicat Solidarność présidé par Lech Wałęsa. La répression s'avérant impuissante, il négocia finalement la transition pacifique vers la démocratie. Son ancien ennemi le remplaça à la tête du pays. La famille de Wojciech Jaruzelski est une famille noble qui descend du chevalier Slepowron (d'où les armes de cette famille - le blason « Slepowron ») à qui en 1224 le prince Conrad de Mazovie donna des biens terriens de Jeruzale (appelés plus tard Jaruzele) en récompense de sa participation aux guerres contre la tribu païenne des Sudaves. Le grand-père du général, également prénommé Wojciech (lat. Adalbert) prit part à l'insurrection de Janvier (1863) et fut déporté en Sibérie pa...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Title: Wislawa Szymborska. Monologue of a Dog: New Poems.(Book review)
Author: Magdalena Kay
Publication: World Literature Today (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 81Issue: 2Page: 73(2)

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Mas que una antologia, este volumen de la escritora que obtuvo el premio Nobel de Literatura en 1996 incluye practicamente toda la obra de Wislawa Szymborska. En el prologo, escribe Elena Poniatowska: ""Sus poemas nitidos, aforisticos, nada describen, ninguno se alarga demasiado. Su ironia es precisa, tajante a veces. Mas que contar grandes elegias, exalta juguetona, traviesa, las pequenas y curiosas diferencias que nos determinan"". ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Wisława Szymborska, Dorota Masłowska, Catherine Radziwill, Anna Langfus, Anna Szatkowska, Anna Świrszczyńska, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Roma Ligocka, Hanna Krall, Małgorzata Malicka, Kinga Dunin, Maria Kuncewiczowa. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Wisława Szymborska est une poétesse polonaise née le 2 juillet 1923 à Bnin près de Poznań, qui reçut le Prix Nobel de littérature en 1996 En 1931, sa famille déménage à Cracovie où elle suivra des études de littérature et de sociologie à l'Université jagellonne. Elle y réside encore. Membre du parti ouvrier unifié polonais (communiste) au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Wisława Szymborska s'en éloigne au cours des années 1950 en fréquentant certains milieux dissidents, comme ceux de la revue Kultura, éditée à Paris. Elle quitte finalement le parti en 1966. Ses deux premiers recueils sont d'inspiration communiste, les suivants sont plus personnels. Elle a rejeté ses textes de jeunesse trop assujettis, selon elle, aux impératifs du réalisme socialiste. Dans Wołanie do Yeti (L'Appel au yeti, 1957), elle compare Staline à l'abominable homme des neiges. Ses ouvrages à venir : Sól (Sel, 1962), Sto pociech (Mille Consolations, 1967), Poezje (Poèmes, 1970) et Tarsjusz i inne wiersze (Tarsus et autres poèmes, 1976) montrent l'étendu de son registre, mêlant plusieurs considérations philosophiques à un humour raffiné dans l'évocation détaillée et lucide du quotidien. Szymborska se veut respectueuse d'une certaine tradition européenne classique, préférant des vers harmonieux et mesurés à des excès de langage. Le recueil considéré comme son chef-d'œuvre est Wszelki wypadek (Cas où), paru en 1972, qui entraîne la consécration littéraire dans son pays. Chacun ...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Wisława Szymborska, Gabriela Zapolska, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska, Olga Tokarczuk, Marija Lastauskienė, Ewa Lipska, Sofija Pšibiliauskienė, Dorota Masłowska, Anna Szatkowska, Eliza Orzeszkowa, Halina Poświatowska, Maria Konopnicka, Małgorzata Musierowicz, Wanda Sieradzka de Ruig, Stefania Zahorska, Agnieszka Graff, Katarzyna Ewa Zdanowicz-Cyganiak, Joanna Wajs, Anna Zahorska, Wanda Malecka, Kinga Dunin, Łiesand Dunin, Maria Kuncewiczowa, Jadwiga Łuszczewska, Magdalena Tulli, Maria Rodziewiczówna. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Maria Gabriela Stefania Korwin-Piotrowska (18571921), known as Gabriela Zapolska, was a Polish novelist, playwright, naturalist writer, feuilletonist, theatre critic and stage actress. Zapolska wrote some 41 plays, 23 novels, 177 short stories, 252 journalistic works, one film script and over 1,500 letters. She gained popularity with her socio-satirical naturalist comedies, which Moralno pani Dulskiej (The Morality of Mrs. Dulska), a 'petty-bourgeois tragic-farce', is considered her most-known work and regarded as a landmark of early modernist Polish drama. Her other dramas were translated into other languages, played at the Polish and European stages, and adapted into radio and film. Zapolska also acted in over 200 plays on stage in Warsaw, Kraków, Pozna, Lwów, Saint Petersburg and Paris. Zapolska was born on March 30, 1857 in Podhajce in Volhynia, (now Volyn Oblast, Ukraine) to a gentry family during the Third Partition of Poland. Her father was a marshal of Volhynian szlachta. She studied at the Sacré Coeur Institute and in the Institute of Education and Science in Lwów. In 1876 she was forced by her family to marry a lieutenant in the tsar's guards, Konstanty nieko-Bocki, but soon left him an...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=874104 ... Read more

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Pseudo-naïve and funny, Jockum Nordström's works compress a bundle of simultaneous narratives in a single frozen frame. He says, "A single picture of mine may often be based on a multiple of originals. I am constantly looking at my immediate surroundings as well as books." Art, photographs, people, plants, architecture, patterns, textiles, sex, and history all play an important role in his compositions.His enigmatic scenes, rendered in drawings and mixed-media pieces in watercolor, gouache, and collage, seem at once old-fashioned and modern. Lucas Cranach and James Ensor are longstanding influences, as are folk art and Surrealism. His art seems to portray suppressed fantasies fighting their way into the consciousnesses of the flattened-out figures. Fantasy has the power to transform banal, alienating tasks into moments that shimmer with humor and poignancy.Essays by Annika Gunnarsson and Brian Sholis.Poems by Wislawa Szymborska, Johannes Bobrowski, and César Vallejo.Clothbound, 9.5 x 13.5 in./96 pgs / 100 color. ... Read more

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Title: Consolation.(Poem)
Author: Wislawa Szymborska
Publication: Poetry (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 188Issue: 1Page: 47(4)

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Title: Szymborska's two monkeys: The stammering poet and the chain of signs.
Author: John Blazina
Publication: The Modern Language Review (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2001
Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association
Volume: 96Issue: 1Page: 130(1)

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