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Adam Zagajewski (Critical Survey of Poetry)

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Although poetry constitutes the most important part of Adam Zagajewski’s oeuvre, he also has written three novels: Ciepło zimno (1975; it’s cold, it’s warm), Das absolute Gehör (1982; absolute pitch), and Cienka kreska (1983; thin line). Zagajewski’s fiction, patterned on the traditional Bildungsroman, is an ironic reworking of this nineteenth century genre.

Zagajewski also published a number of important essays and essay collections. His Świat nie przedstawiony (1974; the world not represented), coauthored by...

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