Breathing Under Water and Other East European Essays (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Stanisław Barańczak
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Essays; literary criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: Culture, Freedom, Language or languages, Philosophy or philosophers, Prisons, Socialism, Literature, Art or artists, Heroes or heroism, Nazism or Nazis, Poland or Polish people, Totalitarianism, Pornography
Stanislaw Baraliczak, poet and critic, left his native Poland in 1981 for the United States, where he is in the midst of a distinguished career as a professor of Polish language and literature at Harvard University. All but one of these thirty essays were written within the past nine years for English- speaking audiences, and were previously published in such periodicals as The New Republic, Partisan Review, and Salmagundi. They deal with cultural comparisons and reflections, discuss such public personages as Lech Walesa and Va’clav Havel, and analyze texts by major...
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