Memories of Starobielsk: Essays Between Art and History Czapski Jozef
Vivid accounts of life in a Soviet prison camp by the author of 'Inhuman Land.'Interned with thousands of Polish army officers and a handful of civilians in the Soviet prisoner-of-war camp at…
Specifikacia Memories of Starobielsk: Essays Between Art and History Czapski Jozef
Vivid accounts of life in a Soviet prison camp by the author of 'Inhuman Land.'Interned with thousands of Polish army officers and a handful of civilians in the Soviet prisoner-of-war camp at Starobielsk in September 1939, the artist Jozef Czapski was one of a very small number to survive the massacre carried out in the forest of Katyn in April 1940. In prose written while the war still raged, Czapski portrays these doomed men, some with the detail of a finished portrait and others in vivid sketches imbued with a rare combination of intimacy and respect, registering their fierce striving to remain fully engaged in humane pursuits in hopeless circumstances. This memoir is complemented by essays on art, history and literature that show Czapski's lifelong attachment to the Russian culture which educated him, in its all its contradictory manifestations, from the poet Alexander
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