Another Beauty

Adam Zagajewski
Translated by Clare Cavanagh
Foreword by Susan Sontag

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

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"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."
—Susan Sontag, from the foreword

"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


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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.

Page count: 240 pp.
Trim size: 5.5 x 8.25
  

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List price: $18.95
978-0-8203-2410-4
3/4/2002

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Adam Zagajewski is the author of several books of poetry, including Tremor and Mysticism for Beginners. He divides his time between Paris and Houston, where he is on the faculty of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston.