Władysław Szpilman
Born
in Sosnowiec, Poland
December 05, 1911
Died
July 06, 2000
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“And now I was lonelier, I supposed, than anyone else in the world. Even Defoe's creation, Robinson Crusoe, the prototype of the ideal solitary, could hope to meet another human being. Crusoe cheered himself by thinking that such a thing could happen any day, and it kept him going. But if any of the people now around me came near I would need to run for it and hide in mortal terror. I had to be alone, entirely alone, if I wanted to live.”
― The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45
― The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45
“Why did this war have to happen at all? Because humanity had to be shown where its godlessness was taking it.”
― The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45
― The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45
“Street traders were doing good business selling a paper toy which represented a pig, but if you put the paper together and unfolded it in a certain way it turned into Hitler’s face.”
― The Pianist
― The Pianist
Polls
June 2021 New School Classic Group Read Poll
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie, 1926, 288 pages
Sophie's Choice by William Styron, 1979, 562 pages
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1938, 178 pages
The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch, 1978, 495 pages
The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey by Ernesto Che Guevara, 1992, 175 pages
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon, 1966, 152 pages
Black Boy by Richard Wright, 1945, 419 pages
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