Opis

The ``canvas'' in the title of this new collection by Polish poet Zagajewski refers primarily to the artist's canvas, on which surreal images and memorable collections of dreamlike objects are created. A portrait of Europe emerges--Europe as the home of Mozart, Schumann, Chopin, Schubert, and Bruckner, of Gothic cathedrals with their ``ribs of granite,'' of philosophers like Nietzsche with his ``head like a bullet.'' Zagajewski is a born phrase-maker, inventing ``tents of trees'' and the ``weasels'' of memory. And he wisely recognizes that the canvas can also be a shroud because in the end everyone must swallow ``a dose of death.'' Beautifully translated and recommended for all larger collections

Data wydania: 1991

ISBN: 978-0-374-52398-5, 9780374523985

Język: angielski

Wydawnictwo: Farrar Straus Giroux

Autor

Adam Zagajewski

Urodzony 21 czerwca 1945 roku na Ukrainie (Lwów)

Adam Zagajewski – poeta, eseista, prozaik, tłumacz. Razem z innymi repatriantami z Kresów jego rodzina po II wojnie światowej wyemigrowała do Gliwic, gdzie ukończył V Liceum Ogólnokształcące. Studiował na Uniwersytecie Jagiellońskim - psychologię i ...