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- Diary 1954
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: Northwestern University Press
summary
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 Czesław Miłosz, Václav 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.
Table of Contents
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- Translators’ Introduction
- pp. vii-6
- Volume One
- pp. 11-208
- Volume Two
- pp. 209-368
- Index of Names
- pp. 371-379
Additional Information
ISBN
9780810167490
Related ISBN(s)
9780810129511
MARC Record
OCLC
879352476
Pages
399
Launched on MUSE
2014-05-07
Language
English
Open Access
No