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Diary 1954
Leopold Tyrmand, a Polish Jew who survived World War II by working in Germany under a false identity, would go on to live and write under Poland’s Communist regime for twenty years before emigrating to the West, where he continued to express his deeply felt anti-Communist views. Diary 1954—written after the independent weekly paper that employed him was closed for refusing to mourn Stalin’s death—is an account of daily life in Communist Poland. Like Czesław Miłosz, Václav Havel, and other dissidents who described the absurdities of Soviet-backed regimes, Tyrmand exposes the lies—big and small—that the regimes employed to stay in power. Witty and insightful, Tyrmand’s diary is the chronicle of a man who uses seemingly minor modes of resistance—as a provocative journalist, a Warsaw intellectual, the "spiritual father" of Polish hipsters, and a promoter of jazz in Poland—to maintain his freedom of thought.
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The Ugly Beautiful People
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Journal 1954
A la mort de Staline, Leopold Tyrmand, 32 ans, travaillait comme chroniqueur au sein la dernière revue jouissant d'une certaine liberté d'expression dans la Pologne communiste, le Tygodnik Powszechny. Il était heureux, il était aimé, il faisait des papiers sur le sport, le théâtre et, surtout, le jazz, dont il était un peu l'apôtre. Ayant refusé de pleurer en une la disparition du "Petit Père des Peuples", toute la rédaction fut limogée, la revue confisquée, et Tyrmand se retrouva sur le carreau. Quelques mois plus tard, alors qu'il fait déjà figure de perdant pathétique ou de parasite sournois, il amorce la rédaction d'un journal intime – qu'il poursuivra pendant à pein...
Zly
A crime novel and a cobblestone romance at the same time, and at the same time a colorful depiction of the life and customs of post-war Warsaw. The title character, Zły, is a lonely romantic hero who fights to protect the aggrieved against the criminal underworld emerging from the ruins of the city.
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