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      My Century

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      In My Century the great Polish poet Aleksander Wat provides a spellbinding account of life in Eastern Europe in the midst of the terrible twentieth century. Based on interviews with Nobel Prize winner Czeslaw Milosz, My Century describes the artistic, sexual, and political experimentat...

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      Product ID:9781590170656
      Product Form:Paperback / softback
      Country of Manufacture:GB
      Title:My Century
      Authors:Author: Aleksander Wat
      Page Count:448
      Subjects:Autobiography: general, Autobiography: general, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Polish
      Description:In My Century the great Polish poet Aleksander Wat provides a spellbinding account of life in Eastern Europe in the midst of the terrible twentieth century. Based on interviews with Nobel Prize winner Czeslaw Milosz, My Century describes the artistic, sexual, and political experimentation --in which Wat was a major participant-- that followed the end of World War I: an explosion of talent and ideas which, he argues, in some ways helped to open the door to the destruction that the Nazis and Bolsheviks soon visited upon the world. But Wat''s book is at heart a story of spiritual struggle and conversion. He tells of his separation during World War II from his wife and young son, of his confinement in the Soviet prison system, of the night when the sound of far-off laughter brought on a vision of "the devil in history." "It was then," Wat writes, "that I began to be a believer."
      Imprint Name:NYRB Classics
      Publisher Name:The New York Review of Books, Inc
      Country of Publication:GB
      Publishing Date:2003-12-31

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      Weight488 g
      Dimensions132 × 204 × 40 mm