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Breathing Under Water and Other East European Essays
Stanislaw Baranczak
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Description for Breathing Under Water and Other East European Essays
Hardback. Num Pages: 258 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1DV; 2AB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 499.
Stanislaw Baranczak, a Polish writer in exile, turns to his colleagues and their plights, in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and the Soviet Union, to explain why oppressive regimes could not succeed in their attempts to transform the Eastern European into Homo sovieticus.
These superb essays focus on the role that culture, and particularly literature, has played in keeping the spirit of intellectual independence alive in Eastern and Central Europe. Exploring a variety of issues from censorship to underground poetry, Baranczak shows why, in societies where people struggle to survive under totalitarian rule, art is believed to have the power to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
Number of Pages
258
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674081253
SKU
V9780674081253
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