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Lucifer Unemployed
Language: en
Pages: 140
Authors: Aleksander Wat
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990 - Publisher: Northwestern University Press

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In these nine stories the Polish writer Aleksander Wat consistently turns history on its ear in comic reversals reverberating with futurist rhythms and the gent
Aleksander Wat
Language: en
Pages: 396
Authors: Tomas Venclova
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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Aleksander Wat was, in many ways, the archetypal Central European intellectual of the mid-twentieth century, a man who experienced and influenced all the tumult
Visions of Avant-Garde Film
Language: en
Pages: 249
Authors: Kamila Kuc
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-12-12 - Publisher: Indiana University Press

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Warsaw- and London-based filmmakers Franciszka and Stefan Themerson are often recognized internationally as pioneers of the 1930s Polish avant-garde. Yet, from
How Does It Hurt?
Language: en
Pages: 377
Authors: Stephanie de Montalk
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-07-01 - Publisher: Victoria University Press

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In How Does It Hurt?, acclaimed poet and biographer Stephanie de Montalk tells the story of the chronic pain that has invaded her life for more than 10 years. S
My Century
Language: en
Pages: 460
Authors: Aleksander Wat
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-01-30 - Publisher: New York Review of Books

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In My Century the great Polish poet Aleksander Wat provides a spellbinding account of life in Eastern Europe in the midst of the terrible twentieth century. Bas