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Władysław Szpilman

Born

in Sosnowiec, Poland

December 05, 1911

Died

July 06, 2000

Website

http://www.szpilman.net/

Genre

Biographies & Memoirs

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Polish pianist, composer and memoirist.
Szpilman is widely known as the protagonist of the Roman Polański film The Pianist , which is based on his autobiographical book recounting how he survived the Holocaust. In November 1998 Władysław Szpilman was honoured by the president of Poland with a Kommandor Order with a Star of Polonia Restituta.

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Władysław Szpilman’s books

Average rating: 4.23 · 74,089 ratings · 1,373 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45 by Władysław Szpilman, Anthea Bell (Translator) 4.24 avg rating — 75,947 ratings — published 1946 — 118 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Βιέρα Γκραν: Η κατηγορούμενη by Agata Tuszyńska, Θωμάς Σκάσσης (Translator), Władysław Szpilman (Contributor) 3.92 avg rating — 237 ratings — published 2010 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selecções do Livro: Perigo Biológico / O Verão da Minha Ousadia / O Pianista / Que Natal! by Ken Follett (Goodreads Author), Barbara Delinsky (Goodreads Author), Władysław Szpilman 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pianist by Anthea (translator) Szpilman Wladyslaw;(1905-06-21) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Memories of You: Sixteen Selected Songs by the Pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman by Wendy Lands, Władysław Szpilman 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2003	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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.”
― Władysław Szpilman, The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45

tags: holocaust

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“Why did this war have to happen at all? Because humanity had to be shown where its godlessness was taking it.”
― Władysław Szpilman, The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45

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“They gave no alms; in their view charity simply demoralized people. If you worked as hard as they did then you would earn as much too: it was open to everyone to do so, and if you didn’t know how to get on in life that was your own fault.”
― Władysław Szpilman, The Pianist

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Polls

June 2015 New School Classics Group Read

Which book would you like to read for our June 2015 New School group read?

1947, The Plague by Albert Camus, 308 pages

9 votes, 20.9%

1931, The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, 418 pages

7 votes, 16.3%

1958, Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote, 142 pages

6 votes, 14.0%

1989, A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving, 637 pages

5 votes, 11.6%

1956, Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, 159 pages

4 votes, 9.3%

1905, The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, 335 pages

3 votes, 7.0%

1928, Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence, 364 pages

3 votes, 7.0%

1941, Chess Story by Stefan Zweig, 84 pages

3 votes, 7.0%

1965, Stoner by John Williams, 288 pages

1 vote, 2.3%

1944, Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, 351 pages

1 vote, 2.3%

1981, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, 647 pages

1 vote, 2.3%

1904, The Sea Wolf by Jack London, 425 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

1946, The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45 by Władysław Szpilman, 222 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

1921, Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini, 359 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

43 total votes

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