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Another Beauty
Adam Zagajewski
Foreword by Susan Sontag
Translated by Clare Cavanagh

"These fragments elegantly and elliptically convey the mad delight and despair of fighting a political system with poetry." —Boston Globe

This brilliant memoir is Adam Zagajewski's recollection of 1960s and 1970s communist Poland, where he was a fledgling writer, student of philosophy, and vocal dissident at the university in Krakow, Poland's most beautiful and ancient city.

March 2002

ISBN 0820324108 paper • $18.95

240 pp. • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.

"Another Beauty, a wise, iridescent book . . . dips in and out of many genres: coming-of-age-memoir, commonplace book, aphoristic musings, vignettes and portraits, and defense of poetry-that is, a defense of the idea of literary greatness."
—from the foreword by Susan Sontag

"A remarkable document, notable for both its literary acuity and its ability to evoke the experience of growing up in a police state, in a culture that is dreary and surreal by turns, where, as [Zagajewski] puts it, 'the Zeitgeist chisels our thoughts and mocks our dreams.'"
—Chicago Tribune

"Full of pithy and compelling observations on art and society, of luminous descriptions of Krakow and Paris . . . this is a book to be read once through and returned to often."
—Booklist

"While the absence of apocalypse suggests that Zagajewski has moved beyond the avant-garde, the incredible variety and intricacy of his prose make clear that he is still in the midst of his own quiet revolution."-John Palattella, Dissent

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