The Subtenant : To Outwit God

ISBN-13: 9780810110755 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 247 str.

Hanna Krall; Joanna Stasinska; Lawrence Weschler

Opis

This volume presents two works by acclaimed Polish journalist Hanna Krall: "The Subtenant, " a semi-autobiographical novel, and "To Outwit God, " a remarkable interview with Marek Edelman, the last surviving leader of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. "The Subtenant" explores the troubled and ever-shifting relationships between Poles and Jews, beginning with the author's concealment as a child during the Nazi years and ending in 1981 when martial law was declared in Poland. In "To Outwit God, " Edelman's words assault conventional assumptions about heroes and heroism, taking in his time not only in the Warsaw Ghetto but his careers as a physician and a Solidarity activist. Taken together, the two works form a powerful memoir of Jewish survival, a meditation on Polish-Jewish relations, and a commentary on the forces that have produced modern Polish opposition movements.