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Jadwiga Kosicka (trans) and
Jan Kott
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Yale Univ Pr
Publication date
April 1, 1994
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780300052763
ISBN-10
0300052766
Dimensions
1 by 6.25 by 9.50 in.
Weight
1.30 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$35.00
Other format details
university press
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Still Alive recounts the perilous odyssey of a renowned man of letters through the endless political crises of Eastern Europe in the mid-20th century. Jan Kott - Polish essayist and theatre critic, author of the landmark work Shakespeare Our Contemporary, winner of literary awards on two continents - tells of his association with the Surrealist circles in Paris before the Second World War, his adventures as a partisan in the Polish underground fighting the Nazis, his postwar involvement in the Polish Communist Party, his disillusionment with communism and, finally, his emigration to America. His story reveals not only the dramatic turns of an individual life but also the fate of a whole generation of Eastern European intellectuals. At once witty, suspenseful, and profound, Kott's memoir begins with a bocci game played in 1939 with Trotsky's future murderer and ends with a deeply moving description of his fifth heart attack in 1991 that illuminates the book's main concern: how to make sense of one's own existence. Kott does not pose this as a philosophic problem, but as one given by the extreme situations he was forced to master and survive. This is the remarkable testimony of a man whose life brought him many opportunities to face the consequences of radical choice and in whom the consciousness of those essential encounters continues to resonate. Published in Polish in 1990 and acclaimed by critics throughout Europe, the book is now available in English for the first time Kott has added much new material to this edition, including the final chapter.
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Hardcover
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from Yale Univ Pr (April 1, 1994)
9780300052763 | details & prices | 6.25 × 9.50 × 1.00 in. | 1.30 lbs | List price $35.00
About: Still Alive recounts the perilous odyssey of a renowned man of letters through the endless political crises of Eastern Europe in the mid-20th century.
About: Still Alive recounts the perilous odyssey of a renowned man of letters through the endless political crises of Eastern Europe in the mid-20th century.
Paperback
from Yale Univ Pr (May 30, 1994)
9780300105612 | details & prices | 308 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.75 in. | 1.04 lbs | List price $32.00
About: In the first English translation of Still Alive, the renowned Polish essayist and theater critic Jan Kott recounts his perilous odyssey through the endless political crises of Eastern Europe in the mid-twentieth-century, illuminating not only the fate of a whole generation of intellectuals, but also his main concern: how to make sense of one's own existence "As a portrayal of turbulent times, the book is priceless, in particular because of its extraordinarily vivid depictions of the atmosphere of everyday life under Communism.
About: In the first English translation of Still Alive, the renowned Polish essayist and theater critic Jan Kott recounts his perilous odyssey through the endless political crises of Eastern Europe in the mid-twentieth-century, illuminating not only the fate of a whole generation of intellectuals, but also his main concern: how to make sense of one's own existence "As a portrayal of turbulent times, the book is priceless, in particular because of its extraordinarily vivid depictions of the atmosphere of everyday life under Communism.
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