Polish Writers on Writing
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Polish Writers on Writing

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Featuring 20th-century writers, including Nobel Prize winners Czeslaw Milosz and Wislawa Szymborska, as well as celebrated poet Zbigniew Herbert and internationally renowned Bruno Schulz, this collection captures the brilliance and originality of a literary culture rightly considered one of the most important and influential of our time. These writers are branded by the po...more
Hardcover, 320 pages
Published March 7th 2007 by Trinity University Press (first published March 2nd 2007)
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Claire
Some essays here are less interesting than others. But the writings by Milosz make the whole book. I was a little disappointed that the book doesn't include any essays by Herbert--only a correspondence between H and one of his mentors.
Eva Stachniak
A few lines from Szymborska:

The joy of writing.
The power of preserving.
Revenge of a mortal hand.
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