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Magnetic North

Conversations with Tomas Venclova

By: Tomas Venclova,Ellen Hinsey

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Conversations with Tomas Venclova

By: Tomas Venclova,Ellen Hinsey

Interweaves Eastern European postwar history, dissidence, and literature to expand our understanding of the significance of this important Lithuanian writer.

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Boydell & Brewer

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1580465862

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Magnetic North

Conversations with Tomas Venclova

By: Tomas Venclova,Ellen Hinsey

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Magnetic North

Conversations with Tomas Venclova

By: Tomas Venclova,Ellen Hinsey

Interweaves Eastern European postwar history, dissidence, and literature to expand our understanding of the significance of this important Lithuanian writer.

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Winter Dialogue

By: Tomas Venclova

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This collection of thirty poems may be compared to the critical essays that have made Venclova famous. Venclova's major poetic accomplishment is his linking of intimate experience and historical incident in poems that are intensely contemporary at the same time as they reach back to the ethnic roots of an entire generation. Diana Senechal's deft translation from the Lithuanian - done in collaboration with the author - preserves both Venclova's lyric voice and the complex stanzaic patterns for which his poetry is known in his native country. Featuring an insightful introduction by the late Joseph Brodsky, and a fascinating exhange between Venclova and Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz about the city of their respective youths.

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172

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Northwestern University Press

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0810117266

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9780810117266

Aleksander Wat

Life and Art of an Iconoclast

By: Tomas Venclova

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Aleksander Wat

Life and Art of an Iconoclast

By: Tomas Venclova

Aleksander Wat was, in many ways, the archetypal Central European intellectual of the mid-twentieth century, a man who experienced and influenced all the tumultuous political and artistic movements of his time. Yet little has been published about him, even in his native Poland. This book is the first account of Wat's turbulent life, accompanied by a thorough analysis of his extraordinary poems and prose works in their diverse periods and genres. Tomas Venclova, himself a poet of international renown, has uncovered numerous new biographical details, made the surprising discovery of an unfinished novel Wat began fifty years ago, and woven together the themes of Wat's life and work. At different times a futurist, surrealist, and Communist fellow traveler, Wat turned away from communism after his imprisonment by the Soviet secret police and became a vociferous spokesman for democracy. Venclova tells Wat's story from his Polish-Jewish upbringing in the early 1900s, his participation in the literary avant-garde in the 1920s, and his work as editor of an influential Communist journal before World War II through his emigration to the West in 1959 and his death in 1967. Venclova argues convincingly that Wat's literary achievement promoted the rejuvenation of Polish and East European letters after the Stalinist era. His broad intellectual influence on many, including Czeslaw Milosz, helped to consolidate the moral and political opposition to totalitarian ideology that has profoundly changed political realities in the late twentieth century.

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396

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Yale University Press

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0300064063

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Transformations in Central Europe Between 1989 and 2012

Geopolitical, Cultural, and Socioeconomic Shifts

By: Tomas Kavaliauskas

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Transformations in Central Europe Between 1989 and 2012

Geopolitical, Cultural, and Socioeconomic Shifts

By: Tomas Kavaliauskas

This book is an in-depth study of the transformations in Central Europe in the years since the fall of Communism. In a comparative analysis of geopolitical, ethical, cultural, and socioeconomic shifts, this essential text investigates the post-communist countries.

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232

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Lexington Books

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073917410X

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9780739174104

Winter Dialogue

By: Tomas Venclova

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By: Tomas Venclova

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Northwestern University Press

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Narratives of Exile and Identity

Soviet DeportationMemoirs from the Baltic states

By: Tomas balkelis

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Narratives of Exile and Identity

Soviet DeportationMemoirs from the Baltic states

By: Tomas balkelis

In an innovative effort to situate Baltic testimonies to the Gulag in the broader international context of research on displacement and memory, scholars from the Baltic States, Western Europe, Canada, and the United States seek answers to the following questions: Do different groups of deportees experience deportation differently? How do the accounts of women, children and men differ in their representation? Do various ethnic groups remember the past differently: how do they use historical and cultural paradigms to structure their experience in unique ways? The scholars researched the archives, read testimonies, interviewed former deportees, and examined artifacts of memory produced since the late 1980s, applying crossdisciplinary approaches used at the study of the Holocaust testimonies; the testimonies of women have received a particular emphasis. The essays in the book also examine the issues of transmittance, commemoration and public uses of the memory of deportations in contemporary social, cultural and political contexts of Baltic societies, including the reflection of Gulag legacy in literature, the cinema and museums.

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Central European University Press

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9633861837

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9789633861837

Aleksander Wat

Life and Art of an Iconoclast

By: Tomas Venclova

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Life and Art of an Iconoclast

By: Tomas Venclova

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Winter Dialogue

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Aleksander Wat

Aleksander Wat

Transformations in Central Europe Between 1989 and 2012

Transformations in Central Europe Between 1989 and 2012

Winter Dialogue

Winter Dialogue

Narratives of Exile and Identity

Narratives of Exile and Identity

Aleksander Wat

Aleksander Wat

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