LEADER 02953nam 22005295 450 001 9910828772603321 005 20200406050111.0 010 $a0-300-19004-2 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300190045 035 $a(CKB)4100000007109511 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5570752 035 $a(DE-B1597)514572 035 $a(OCoLC)1083583306 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300190045 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007109511 100 $a20200406h20192018 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aWartime Notebooks $eFrance, 1940-1944 /$fAndrzej Bobkowski 210 1$aNew Haven, CT : $cYale University Press, $d[2019] 210 4$d©2018 215 $a1 online resource (698 pages) 225 0 $aThe Margellos World Republic of Letters 311 $a0-300-17671-6 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tINTRODUCTION -- $t1940 -- $t1941 -- $t1942 -- $t1943 -- $t1944 -- $tAFTERWORD: OUT OF THIS NETTLE -- $tACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND TRANSLATORS' NOTE -- $tNOTES -- $tINDEX OF NAMES 330 $aA Polish writer's experience of wartime France, a cosmopolitan outsider's perspective on politics, culture, and life under duress When the aspiring young writer Andrzej Bobkowski, a self-styled cosmopolitan Pole, found himself caught in occupied France in 1940, he recorded his reflections on culture, politics, history, and everyday life. Published after the war, his notebooks offer an outsider's perspective on the hardships and ironies of the Occupation. In the face of war, Bobkowski celebrates the value of freedom and human life through the evocation-in a daringly untragic mode-of ordinary existence, the taste of simple food, the beauty of the French countryside. Resisting intellectual abstractions, his notes exude a young man's pleasure in physical movement-miles clocked on country roads and Parisian streets on his trusty bike-and they reveal the emergence of an original literary voice. Bobkowski was recognized in his homeland as a master of modern Polish prose only after Communism ended. He remains to be discovered in the English-speaking world. 410 0$aMargellos world republic of letters book. 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$vPersonal narratives, Polish 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$zFrance 607 $aFrance$xHistory$yGerman occupation, 1940-1945 607 $aFrance$xSocial life and customs$y20th century 607 $aFrance$xDescription and travel 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945 676 $a940.5481 700 $aBobkowski$b Andrzej, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0620672 701 $aDrabik$b Grazyna$01692512 701 $aEngelstein$b Laura$0759650 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910828772603321 996 $aWartime Notebooks$94069646 997 $aUNINA