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- Against the Devil in History: Poems, Short Stories, Essays, Fragments
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- 2018
- Published by: Slavica Publishers
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- Front Matter
- pp. i-iv
- Table of Contents
- pp. v-xi
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Section: Poems
- Saracenic Motifs
- p. 26
- What Is It?
- p. 30
- Morning by the Water
- pp. 31-32
- Calligraphies
- pp. 34-35
- Queen Candace’s Courtier
- pp. 38-39
- Somatic Poems
- pp. 41-42
- A Dithyramb
- p. 43
- Departure for Sicily
- pp. 46-47
- Evening—Night—Morning
- pp. 48-54
- Like a tree
- p. 55
- The Obscure Light
- p. 56
- Antaeus Depart
- pp. 59-61
- Whispers to a Tape Recorder (1)
- pp. 62-97
- Whispers to a Tape-Recorder (2)
- pp. 98-103
- Trifle about Poetry
- pp. 104-105
- A Philosopher
- pp. 106-107
- An Attempt at Genealogy
- p. 108
- What could he know?
- p. 111
- Translator’s Notes to the Poems
- pp. 112-124
- Section: Short Stories
- A Rhapsody about Two Germans*
- pp. 127-128
- After Death*
- pp. 129-143
- The Death of an Old Bolshevik
- pp. 144-158
- Section: Essays
- The Key and the Hook
- pp. 192-242
- Nine Drafts to a Portrait of Joseph Stalin
- pp. 243-305
- The Translatability of Poetic Works
- pp. 306-322
- A Few Words about the Stove: A Draft
- pp. 323-338
- Section: Fragments from Moralia * Diary without Vowels * Leaves in the Wind
- What should the aim of the translator be?
- pp. 341-342
- Forget Genghis Khan!
- p. 342
- The Gospels, also a Literary Masterpiece
- pp. 343-345
- What keeps me apart from Catholicism?
- pp. 345-350
- I wrote some poems again
- pp. 353-354
- In an old issue of Revue de Metaphisique
- pp. 357-358
- A conversation with [Czesław] Miłosz
- pp. 358-363
- Both the Xs
- pp. 363-364
- After so many years [together]
- pp. 364-367
- A morning in the prefecture
- pp. 365-368
- Despite two Nembutals
- pp. 368-369
- Yesterday Antoni showed up
- pp. 369-371
- THE DEVIL IN HISTORY
- pp. 373-374
- I am thinking about Antoni
- pp. 374-375
- For My Dichtung und Wahrheit
- pp. 375-376
- Yesterday Antoni
- pp. 376-378
- After fierce cold, pain, and anxiety
- pp. 378-379
- Five of us in our kitchen
- pp. 379-384
- Yesterday at Andrzej’s
- pp. 386-387
- So I am in America
- pp. 387-388
- On December 24th in the morning
- pp. 388-393
- Yesterday I finally saw a different America
- pp. 393-395
- Why I Write Poems
- pp. 405-410
- Leaves in the Wind
- p. 412
- The Situation: Faith—Knowledge
- pp. 412-413
- Let us sum up the basic differences
- pp. 413-414
- From the Last Notebook
- Dear Andrzej
- pp. 415-416
- The enormous energy
- p. 417
- I definitely cannot endure it anymore
- pp. 417-418
- DO NOT RESCUE
- pp. 418-419
- I feel better
- p. 419
- Aleksander Wat’s CV
- pp. 423-426
Additional Information
ISBN
9780893577759
Related ISBN(s)
9780893574925
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OCLC
1080551829
Launched on MUSE
2019-01-02
Language
English
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