Diary 1954

ISBN-13: 9780810129511 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 400 str.

Leopold Tyrmand; Anita Shelton; Andrew Wrobel

Opis

Leopold Tyrmand, a Polish Jew who survived World War II by working in Germany under a false identity, would go on to live and write under Poland s Communist regime for twenty years before emigrating to the West, where he continued to express his deeply felt anti-Communist views. "Diary 1954" written after the independent weekly paper that employed him was closed for refusing to mourn Stalin s death is an account of daily life in Communist Poland. Like Czes aw Mi osz, Vaclav Havel, and other dissidents who described the absurdities of Soviet-backed regimes, Tyrmand exposes the lies big and small that the regimes employed to stay in power. Witty and insightful, Tyrmand s diary is the chronicle of a man who uses seemingly minor modes of resistance as a provocative journalist, a Warsaw intellectual, the "spiritual father" of Polish hipsters, and a promoter of jazz in Poland to maintain his freedom of thought. "