Memoir of the Warsaw uprising (Record no. 343553)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781590176658
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 943.841053 BIA
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Personal name Bialoszewski, Miron
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Title Memoir of the Warsaw uprising
Statement of responsibility, etc. edited and translated by Mediline G. Levine
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. New York Review Books
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2014
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 257p.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. On August 1, 1944, Miron Białoszewski, later to gain renown as one of Poland’s most innovative poets, went out to run an errand for his mother and ran into history. With Soviet forces on the outskirts of Warsaw, the Polish capital revolted against five years of Nazi occupation, an uprising that began in a spirit of heroic optimism. Sixty-three days later it came to a tragic end. The Nazis suppressed the insurgents ruthlessly, reducing Warsaw to rubble while slaughtering some 200,000 people, mostly through mass executions. The Red Army simply looked on.<br/><br/>Białoszewski’s blow-by-blow account of the uprising brings it alive in all its desperate urgency. Here we are in the shoes of a young man slipping back and forth under German fire, dodging sniper bullets, collapsing with exhaustion, rescuing the wounded, burying the dead. An indispensable and unforgettable act of witness, A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising is also a major work of literature. Białoszewski writes in short, stabbing, splintered, breathless sentences attuned to “the glaring identity of ‘now.’” His pages are full of a white-knuckled poetry that resists the very destruction it records.<br/><br/>Madeline G. Levine has extensively revised her 1977 translation, and passages that were unpublishable in Communist Poland have been restored.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Warsaw (Poland)-History-Uprising, 1944-Personal narratives
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Personal name Levine, Madeline G.
Relator term Editor and Translator
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