Name: nonrequired reading,prose pieces (in English)
Price: 21.00 USD
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Author: Wislawa Szymborska
ISBN: 9780151006601

portada nonrequired reading,prose pieces (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Wislawa Szymborska

Publisher

Ecco Press

Year

2002

Language

English

Pages

256

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

21.8 x 14.5 x 2.3 cm

Weight

0.45 kg.

ISBN13

9780151006601

Synopsis "nonrequired reading,prose pieces (in English)"

Wislawa Szymborska's poems are admired around the world, and her unsparing vision, tireless wit, and deep sense of humanity are cherished by countless readers. Unknown to most of them, however, Szymborska also worked for several decades as a columnist, reviewing a wide variety of books under the unassuming title "Nonrequired Reading."As readers of her poems would expect, the short prose pieces collected here are anything but ordinary. Reflecting the author's own eclectic tastes and interests, the pretexts for these ruminations range from books on wallpapering, cooking, gardening, and yoga, to more lofty volumes on opera and world literature. Unpretentious yet incisive, these charming pieces are on a par with Szymborska's finest lyrics, tackling the same large and small questions with a wonderful curiosity.

Wislawa Szymborska

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(1923-2012). Wislawa empezó su carrera dentro del régimen socialista polaco y después se convirtió en su opositora, saltó a la fama mundial en la década de 1990. A pesar de la breve extensión de su obra, ha sido reconocida como una de las voces más intensas y claras de la literatura universal y contemporánea, y se ha hecho acreedora de los premios Goethe (1991), Herder (1995) y Nobel de literatura (1996).

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