This work tells the story of Aleksander Wat, from his Polish-Jewish upbringing, his participation in the literary avant-garde in the 1920s, through to his work as editor of a Communist journal before World War II, his conversion to democracy, and his emigration to the West in 1959.
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 ...
Now available in paperback, this collection of essays, acclaimed Lithuanian poet Tomas Venclova reveals the tangled relationship between poetry and politics in Soviet Russia and Eastern Europe. His perspective on Eastern Europe in the twentieth century is that of a political dissident, a human rights campaigner, a writer, and a critic. His ...
Lithuania's Tomas Venclova is one of Europe's greatest living poets. His work speaks with a moral depth exceptional in contemporary poetry. Venclova's poetry addresses the desolate landscape of the aftermath of totalitarianism, as well as the ethical constants that allow for hope and perseverance. "The Junction" brings together entirely new ...
"Vilnius: A Personal History" is the history of the amazing Lithuanian city written by the great poet most qualified to write about it. This book includes a dialogue between the author and Nobel Prize laureate Czeslaw Milosz about the city. This is an absolutely indispensable work on the city that produced John Gielgud, Bernard Berenson and the ...
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