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The Collected Prose
1948-1998
Buch von Zbigniew Herbert
Sprache: Englisch

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Polish poet and essayist Zbigniew Herbert easily stands beside Nobel Prize laureates Milosz and Szymborska as part of a remarkable literary tradition. Though Herbert is very much an Eastern European writer, the urgency, vitality, and relevance of his work extend far beyond the borders of his particular region and his particular time. His fascination with other subjects?from painting to all things Dutch?enriched the scope and depth of his poetry, and made for compelling explorations in his essays and short prose pieces.

The first collected English edition of his prose work, this outstanding volume consists of four books?Labryinth on the Sea, Still Life with a Bridle, King of the Ants, and Barbarian in the Garden. Brilliant and erudite, dazzling and witty, these essays survey the geography of humanity, its achievements and its foibles. From Western civilization's past, as witnessed through the Greek and Roman landscape, to musings on the artistic that celebrate the author's discriminating eye, poetic sensibility, and gift for irony, humor, and the absurd; from a sage retelling of myths and tales that became twentieth-century philosophical parables of human behavior to thoughts on art, culture, and history inspired by journeys in France, Italy, and the Netherlands, Collected Prose is a rich compendium that celebrates the mastery and wisdom of a remarkable artist.

Polish poet and essayist Zbigniew Herbert easily stands beside Nobel Prize laureates Milosz and Szymborska as part of a remarkable literary tradition. Though Herbert is very much an Eastern European writer, the urgency, vitality, and relevance of his work extend far beyond the borders of his particular region and his particular time. His fascination with other subjects?from painting to all things Dutch?enriched the scope and depth of his poetry, and made for compelling explorations in his essays and short prose pieces.

The first collected English edition of his prose work, this outstanding volume consists of four books?Labryinth on the Sea, Still Life with a Bridle, King of the Ants, and Barbarian in the Garden. Brilliant and erudite, dazzling and witty, these essays survey the geography of humanity, its achievements and its foibles. From Western civilization's past, as witnessed through the Greek and Roman landscape, to musings on the artistic that celebrate the author's discriminating eye, poetic sensibility, and gift for irony, humor, and the absurd; from a sage retelling of myths and tales that became twentieth-century philosophical parables of human behavior to thoughts on art, culture, and history inspired by journeys in France, Italy, and the Netherlands, Collected Prose is a rich compendium that celebrates the mastery and wisdom of a remarkable artist.

Über den Autor

Zbigniew Herbert was born in Lwów, Poland, in 1924. Herbert studied law, economics, and philosophy at the universities of Krakow, Torun, and Warsaw. His books include Selected Poems, Mr Cogito, Report from the Besieged City and Other Poems, Barbarian in the Garden, Still Life with a Bridle, The King of the Ants, and Reconstruction of the Poet. A passionate traveler, in the years of Solidarity he also became a central authority of the political opposition to communism in Poland. He died in 1998.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Genre: Gattungen & Methoden
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 736
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780060723828
ISBN-10: 0060723823
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Herbert, Zbigniew
Redaktion: Valles, Alissa
Übersetzung: March, Michael
Hersteller: HarperCollins
Maße: 236 x 156 x 48 mm
Von/Mit: Zbigniew Herbert
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.08.2010
Gewicht: 0,907 kg
preigu-id: 102431210
Über den Autor

Zbigniew Herbert was born in Lwów, Poland, in 1924. Herbert studied law, economics, and philosophy at the universities of Krakow, Torun, and Warsaw. His books include Selected Poems, Mr Cogito, Report from the Besieged City and Other Poems, Barbarian in the Garden, Still Life with a Bridle, The King of the Ants, and Reconstruction of the Poet. A passionate traveler, in the years of Solidarity he also became a central authority of the political opposition to communism in Poland. He died in 1998.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Genre: Gattungen & Methoden
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 736
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780060723828
ISBN-10: 0060723823
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Herbert, Zbigniew
Redaktion: Valles, Alissa
Übersetzung: March, Michael
Hersteller: HarperCollins
Maße: 236 x 156 x 48 mm
Von/Mit: Zbigniew Herbert
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.08.2010
Gewicht: 0,907 kg
preigu-id: 102431210
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