Still Life with a Bridle (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Zbigniew Herbert
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Essays and fictions
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays, History, Arts
- Subjects: History, Language or languages, Traveling or travelers, Art or artists, Poetry or poets, Seventeenth century, Painting or painters, Pictures, Torture, Architecture or architects
Still Life with a Bridle: Essays and Apocryphas, Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert’s second collection of essays, bears a close relation to his first, published thirty years before. Barbarzyca w ogrodzie (1962; Barbarian in the Garden, 1985) offers an outsider’s look at Mediterranean art and architecture, but this is an outsider who, as émigré poet Stanislaw Baranczak pointed out in 1985, is also the legitimate heir of the cultural tradition from which he has been unfairly disinherited by an accident of history. A similarly ambiguous sense of alienation...
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