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»Das Buch - eine Legende, eines der bedeutendsten Bu¿cher seiner Epoche.« Krzysztof Biedrzycki Die ethische Integrität von Literatur scheint immer dann am stärksten gefährdet zu sein, wenn Schriftsteller in die Klauen der Geschichte geraten. Bald sollen sie sich für oder gegen das herrschende System entscheiden: entweder für Gehorsam oder für Widerstand: Selten gibt es eine weitere Alternative. In einem solchen Klima der Gefahr sind auch die...

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Stanislaw Baranczak, a Polish writer in exile, turns to his colleagues and their plights, in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and the Soviet Union, to explain why oppressive regimes could not succeed in their attempts to transform the Eastern European into Homo sovieticus. These superb essays focus on the role that culture, and particularly literature, has played in keeping the spirit of intellectual independence alive in Eastern and Central E...

The leading Polish poet still residing in his native land, Zbigniew Herbert as not been the subject of a book-length study in English until now. Stanislaw Baranczak, himself a poet, critic, and translator, emigrated from Poland only in 1981, and is therefore eminently qualified to supply a politico-cultural context for Herbert while describing and analyzing the texts and themes of his poems. Herbert's poetry is based on permanent confrontation...

This comprehensive volume includes work from virtually every major Polish poet active during the past twenty years, drawing from both 'official' and underground sources.