02953nam 22005295 450 991079338150332120200406050111.00-300-19004-210.12987/9780300190045(CKB)4100000007109511(MiAaPQ)EBC5570752(DE-B1597)514572(OCoLC)1083583306(DE-B1597)9780300190045(EXLCZ)99410000000710951120200406h20192018 fg engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierWartime Notebooks France, 1940-1944 /Andrzej BobkowskiNew Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2019]©20181 online resource (698 pages)The Margellos World Republic of Letters0-300-17671-6 Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1940 -- 1941 -- 1942 -- 1943 -- 1944 -- AFTERWORD: OUT OF THIS NETTLE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND TRANSLATORS' NOTE -- NOTES -- INDEX OF NAMESA Polish writer's experience of wartime France, a cosmopolitan outsider's perspective on politics, culture, and life under duress When the aspiring young writer Andrzej Bobkowski, a self-styled cosmopolitan Pole, found himself caught in occupied France in 1940, he recorded his reflections on culture, politics, history, and everyday life. Published after the war, his notebooks offer an outsider's perspective on the hardships and ironies of the Occupation. In the face of war, Bobkowski celebrates the value of freedom and human life through the evocation-in a daringly untragic mode-of ordinary existence, the taste of simple food, the beauty of the French countryside. Resisting intellectual abstractions, his notes exude a young man's pleasure in physical movement-miles clocked on country roads and Parisian streets on his trusty bike-and they reveal the emergence of an original literary voice. Bobkowski was recognized in his homeland as a master of modern Polish prose only after Communism ended. He remains to be discovered in the English-speaking world.Margellos world republic of letters book.World War, 1939-1945Personal narratives, PolishWorld War, 1939-1945FranceFranceHistoryGerman occupation, 1940-1945FranceSocial life and customs20th centuryFranceDescription and travelWorld War, 1939-1945World War, 1939-1945940.5481Bobkowski Andrzej, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut620672Drabik Grazyna1527661Engelstein Laura759650DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910793381503321Wartime Notebooks3770686UNINA