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Winter Dialogue
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 172

Winter Dialogue

This collection of thirty poems may be compared to the critical essays that have made Venclova famous. Venclova's major poetic accomplishment is his linking of intimate experience and historical incident in poems that are intensely contemporary at the same time as they reach back to the ethnic roots of an entire generation. Diana Senechal's deft translation from the Lithuanian - done in collaboration with the author - preserves both Venclova's lyric voice and the complex stanzaic patterns for which his poetry is known in his native country. Featuring an insightful introduction by the late Joseph Brodsky, and a fascinating exhange between Venclova and Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz about the city of their respective youths.

Who was David Weiser?
  • Language: en

Who was David Weiser?

During the sweltering summer of 1957 in Gdansk, three boys and a girl fall under the spell of a mysterious classmate, David Weiser. A thin Jewish boy of few words, Weiser can hypnotize panthers, shoot a bullet through a Hitler stamp at a hundred meters, and even levitate. After staging a spectacular explosion with a hidden cache of old German munitions, Weiser and the girl, Elka, vanish without a trace, leaving the three other boys, including Pawel Heller - the novel's narrator - to explain his disappearance to the authorities. But the boys won't talk. What happened to David Weiser? And who was he - a demon, a prophet, or just a boy? Heller's quest for the answers to these questions makes for a beguiling and haunting tale.

A Clergyman's Daughter
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 325

A Clergyman's Daughter

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1950-01-01
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  • Publisher: HMH

A pious young woman grapples with a loss of memory—and of faith—in this sharp, witty novel by the author of 1984 and Animal Farm. Dorothy is the daughter of the Reverend Charles Hare, rector of St. Athelstan’s in Depression-era Suffolk, England. She serves as a dutiful housekeeper, performs good works, cultivates good thoughts—and pricks her arm with a pin when a bad thought arises. But even as she toils away making costumes for the church school play, she is haunted by thoughts about the poverty that surrounds her and the debts she can’t afford to pay. Then, suddenly, she finds herself in London. She is wearing silk stockings, has money in her pocket, and cannot remember her own name . . . This novel of a woman thrust into a strange journey, struck by amnesia and grappling with questions of faith and identity in a world of unemployment and hunger, is a masterful work of satire by one of the great writers of the twentieth century.

Polish Revolution
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 224

Polish Revolution

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1998-09
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Timothy Garton Ash was with the strikers in the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk in August 1980 when the trade union Solidarity was born, in opposition to the Communist government. He witnessed their bravery and defiance and the emergence of an improbable leader and hero in the country's future president, Lech Walesa. This text recreates the ideals and terrors of that time, and exposes the mechanics of oppression of the communist regime.

Journal of education Culture and Society
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 198

Journal of education Culture and Society

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Triumph of Provocation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 255

Triumph of Provocation

This political treatise examines the history and nature of Communism as it developed in the Soviet Union and in Poland. The author argues that accommodation with the Communists simply helped them to impose their vision of the world and pursue their goal of global domination.

Howard Gardner
  • Language: en

Howard Gardner

In this paper, John White examines Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences in human beings. The author asks if there is good evidence that the nine types of intelligence that Gardner identified exist, or if they are, indeed, a myth.