A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising
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Harrowing personal insight into Warsaw's darkest days.
Imagine reliving the Warsaw Uprising through the eyes of a poet, whose prose transforms stark horror into a visceral experience. It's not just about the history; it's the human struggle, the palpable tension, and the poetic shards that bring the 1944 tragedy right into your grasp. You'll find yourself right there on the Warsaw streets, feeling the urgency and the weight of history unraveling around you. This book is for anyone who values a deeply personal perspective on historical events, delivered with a poet's touch.
A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising
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ISBN: 9781590176658
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Date of Publication: 2015-10-27
Format: Paperback
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A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising is both a work of memory and a work about memory. Miron Białoszewski, the great avant-garde Polish poet, memorializes the doomed uprising of the Polish population against their Nazi masters, which began on August 1, 1944, and was eventually abandoned on October 2, 1944, with the physical destruction of Warsaw, street by street and house by house, and the slaughter of 200,000 civilians. Yet Białoszewski begins his memoir not with an invocation of the great historical events about to unfold but with a simple observation: “Tuesday, August 1, 1944, was cloudy, humid, not too warm...and I remember that there were many trolleys, cars, and people and that right after I reached the corner of Zelazna Street, I realized what day it was (the first of August) and I thought to myself, more or less in these words: ‘August 1 is Sunflower Day.’ ” Białoszewski concentrates on recalling the things he saw, felt, smelled, and heard. Each object is precious. Each possesses its own integrity, which the violence of the Nazis will destroy. In reclaiming these objects, Białoszewski combats the inner evil of the time he recounts, the thinking of those for whom the individual is meaningless and the moment is
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