"One of the great novelists of our century."-Milan Kundera First published in 1957 in Poland, "Bacacay"(a nod to his street in Buenos Aires) is a collection of 12 short stories by Witold Gombrowicz (19041968), one of the major European literary figures of the 20th century. Stunningly original in both style and content, these stories are often ...
A series of autobiographical sketches that Gombrowicz composed for Radio Free Europe during his years in Argentina in the late 1950s. The book presents an engaging account of his childhood, youth, literary beginnings and fellow writers in interwar Poland and how these shaped his concepts about self, culture, society.
In "Moving Parts "a feckless, comical narrator struggles against all odds to tell a story for which he is responsible, but which he neither controls nor understands. His characters multiply, repeat, and go astray; his employer is paying no attention, asleep in a drunken stupor. The increasingly desperate narrator clambers over rooftops and through ...
Hailed as one of the most brilliant contributions to the literature of Central and Eastern Europe since the fall of Communism, Dreams and Stones won the prestigious Koscielski Foundation Prize in Poland in 1995. Telling the story of the growth of a great city, Tulli relates its history by entering the lives of the stones from which the buildings ...
A single streetcar line runs around the sleepy square of an unnamed city. One day-out of nowhere-refugees pour from the streetcar and set up camp in the square. The residents grow hostile and eventually take extreme action. Magdalena Tulli's novels include Moving Parts, Dreams and Stones, and In Red. Dreams and Stones won Poland's Koscielski ...
Andrzej Szczypiorski is one of the major figures in world literature. In The Shadow Catcher, he tells the story of a boy who comes of age as the world around him begins to fall apart. At fifteen, Krzys is the adored and sheltered son of a wealthy Polish family; it is the moment just before World War II, which will forever change their lives, but ...
Franklin R. Johnston's field notes -- recently rediscovered after more than half a century -- are a milestone in the history of anthropology. Johnston lived and worked among Native Americans from 1905 through 1939, carefully and meticulously documenting his experiences and discoveries. This book is lavishly illustrated with photographs from ...
"The startling juxtaposition of sensual and brutal histories, of human and animal flesh, of the experience of war and of writing is RA3zewicz's great achievement throughout twenty volumes of poetry."-Guardian From the earliest days of his poetic career, Tadeusz RA3zewicz found a unique, pared-down style that consciously avoided metaphor and ...
Mueller takes an unflinching look at the alienation and complexity of a rapidly changing Eastern Europe, focusing on a group of young friends in Ceaucescu's Romania.
This work examines the important roles that teachers play as moral agents of the classroom. Thorough analysis of the moral issues that educators face is given, as are practical strategies for actual classroom use.
This work seeks to offer a new perspective on language teaching by placing moral issues - that is, questions of values - at the core of what it is to be a teacher. The teacher-student relation is central to this view, rather than the concept of language teaching as merely a technical matter of managing students' acquisition of language. The ...
Selected by "The Los Angeles Times Book Review" as one of the ten Best Fiction Books of 2003. "The Noonday Cemetery & Other Stories," selected by Herling himself shortly before his death in 2000, is a collection of thirteen brilliant stories spanning the last twenty years of his life. His novel "The Island" was published to great acclaim in 1993, ...
A somewhat autobiographical novel about a sensitive teenager in the days before the Nazis invaded Poland. Young Krzys, on vacation with his oppressive parents, experiences both a sexual awakening and an intense disillusionment with the adult world.
Zeromski, whose vivid, assured style is instantly recognizable, was a writer with a strong social conscience, taking up the concerns of the poor and downtrodden. "The Coming Spring" (Przedwio nie), Zeromski's last novel, tells the story of Cezary Baryka, a young Pole who finds himself in Baku, Azerbaijan, then a predominantly Armenian city, as the ...
"No one is born a poet without pain," writes acclaimed Polish poet Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki. In "Peregrinary," a selection from his nine volumes of poetry to date, Tkaczyszyn-Dycki offers deeply personal meditations on suffering and dying, and on the dead and our relationship with them. At the same time and in an unmistakable poetic voice, he ...
This is the first English-language collection of stories by the nineteenth-century writer Boleslaw Prus, who has been called the greatest Polish novelist of all time. While some of his major novels have been translated into English, there has been no definitive collection of his short fiction until now. This new work, containing twelve of Prus's ...
This work seeks to offer a new perspective on language teaching by placing moral issues - that is, questions of values - at the core of what it is to be a teacher. The teacher-student relation is central to this view, rather than the concept of language teaching as merely a technical matter of managing students' acquisition of language. The ...
A unique, multidisciplinary encyclopedia covering the impacts that French and American politics, foreign policy, and culture have had on shaping each country's identity. From the earliest settlements at Sable Island, Acadia, and Guiana at the dawn of the 17th century to the opening of Disneyland Paris in 1992, French and American culture, politics ...
Using local examples where possible, this series of five books enables pupils to learn about mathematics in everyday contexts, developing their skills and capabilities, including financial, and introducing the Key Elements of the curriculum. Book 1 covers levels 3 and 4. There are plenty of real-life examples, as well as discussion points, tasks ...
Using local examples where possible, this series of five books enables pupils to learn about mathematics in everyday contexts, developing their skills and capabilities, including financial, and introducing the Key Elements of the curriculum. Book 2 covers levels 4 and 5. There are plenty of real-life examples, as well as discussion points, tasks ...
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