Kinderszenen / Jaroslaw Rymkiewicz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rymkiewicz, Jaroslaw, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Piano music.

Suites (Piano).

Instrumental music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (183 pages)

Place of Publication:

Seattle, WA : Slant Books, [2023]

Summary:

A n old man--poet, playwright, essayist, and scholar--siftsthrough the broken fragments of his memory as he recounts what it was like togrow up in Warsaw during the German occupation of World War II. The result is Kinderszenen ,a searing and controversial memoir by a major post-war Polish writer that hasevoked both debate and praise, now translated into English for the first time. The book's title comes from the suite of piano pieces byRobert Schumann which evoke the innocence and joy of childhood--thus providing awrenching counterpoint to the violence, destruction, and madness thatcharacterize Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz's coming of age. While the scenes of his youth are depicted in vivid detail,from his boyish encounters with cats, horses, and turtles up to the shockingbrutality of murder and mayhem witnessed at first hand, what really sets Kinderszenen apart is its extended meditation on the nature of war, oppression, andfanatical nationalism, and the possibility--however doomed it may seem--of humanresistance to those forces. Here is an enduring testimony that remains starklyrelevant to our own time.

Contents:

Intro

Introduction

From the Author

MY IDENTITY CARD

CATS IN GNOJNO

THE NUMBER OF TIGERS

MEINE HERREN, WIR SIND KEINE MÖRDER

THE HOLE

THE CURTAIN ON KRAKOWSKIE PRZEDMIEŚCIE

MY NOTEBOOK

POLAND IN EUROPE

INSIDE THE TRAP

LIFE AS RUSSIAN ROULETTE

WAR HEAD

ADOLF DYGASIŃSKI AND HIS HARE

THE LAST SKATER IN THE SWISS VALLEY

THE AMMUNITION CARRIER ENTERS KILIŃSKI ST.

THE SENSE OF MURDER

THE ENTRANCE OF THE TURTLES

WHAT HAPPENED ON WĄSKI DUNAJ?

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF IVAN VASHENKO

THE LITTLE PROP-JOB BETWEN GOŁKÓW AND PIASECZNO

EXPLOSION

THE UPRISING AS AN ERUPTION OF INSANITY

CRAYFISH ON THE CORNER OF KOSZYKOWA AND ŚNIADECKI

MASSACRE À LA GREIM

TURKISH ROMANCE

THE CAUSES OF THE EXPLOSION

THE DEATH OF THE TURTLE

GLOSSARY.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Marek, Rymkiewicz Jarosław Kinderszenen

ISBN:

1-63982-152-X

OCLC:

1409029666