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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bobkowski, Andrzej, author.

Contributor:

Drabik, Grazyna, translator.

Engelstein, Laura, translator.

Series:

Margellos world republic of letters book

The Margellos World Republic of Letters

Standardized Title:

Szkice piórkiem, Francja, 1940-1944. English

Language:

English

Polish

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Polish.

World War, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--France.

France.

Genre:

Personal narratives -- Polish.

Personal narratives.

Physical Description:

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

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]

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.-- Publisher's description.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0300176716

9780300176711

OCLC:

1029892102