Research Catalog

Title

Wartime notebooks : France, 1940-1944 / Andrzej Bobkowski ; translated from the Polish by Grażyna Drabik and Laura Engelstein.

Author

Bobkowski, Andrzej

Publication

• New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Drabik, Grazyna
• Engelstein, Laura

Description

xv, 666 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map; 24 cm.

Summary

A Polish writer's experience of wartime France, a cosmopolitan outsider's perspective on politics, culture, and life under duress When the aspiring young writer Andrzej Bobkowski, a self-styled cosmopolitan Pole, found himself caught in occupied France in 1940, he recorded his reflections on culture, politics, history, and everyday life. Published after the war, his notebooks offer an outsider's perspective on the hardships and ironies of the Occupation. In the face of war, Bobkowski celebrates the value of freedom and human life through the evocation--in a daringly untragic mode--of ordinary existence, the taste of simple food, the beauty of the French countryside. Resisting intellectual abstractions, his notes exude a young man's pleasure in physical movement--miles clocked on country roads and Parisian streets on his trusty bike--and they reveal the emergence of an original literary voice. Bobkowski was recognized in his homeland as a master of modern Polish prose only after Communism ended. He remains to be discovered in the English-speaking world.--

Series Statement

The Margellos World Republic of Letters

Uniform Title

• Szkice piórkiem, Francja, 1940-1944. English
• Margellos world republic of letters book.

Alternative Title

Szkice piórkiem, Francja, 1940-1944.

Subject

• World War (1939-1945)
• 1939-1945
• World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, Polish
• World War, 1939-1945 > France
• France

Genre/Form

Personal narratives – Polish.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• translated to English from the Polish.

Call Number

JFE 19-2469

ISBN

• 0300176716
• 9780300176711

OCLC

1029892102

Author

Bobkowski, Andrzej, author. Author

Title

Wartime notebooks : France, 1940-1944 / Andrzej Bobkowski ; translated from the Polish by Grażyna Drabik and Laura Engelstein.

Publisher

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The Margellos World Republic of Letters

Margellos world republic of letters book.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language

translated to English from the Polish.

Chronological Term

1939-1945

Added Author

Drabik, Grazyna, translator. Translator

Engelstein, Laura, translator. Translator

Research Call Number

JFE 19-2469