Name: a defense of ardor,essays
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Author: Adam Zagajewski
ISBN: 9780374529888

Type

Physical Book

Author

Adam Zagajewski

Translated by

Clare Cavanagh

Publisher

Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl

Language

English

Pages

208

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.3 x 14.0 x 1.5 cm

Weight

0.25 kg.

ISBN

0374529884

ISBN13

9780374529888

Synopsis "a defense of ardor,essays"

Ardor, inspiration, the soul, the sublime: Such terms have long since fallen from favor among critics and artists alike. In his new collection of essays, Adam Zagajewski continues his efforts to reclaim for art not just the terms but the scanted spiritual dimension of modern human existence that they stake out. Bringing gravity and grace to his meditations on art, society, and history, Zagajewski wears his erudition lightly, with a disarming blend of modesty and humor. His topics range from autobiography (his first visit to a post-Soviet Lvov after childhood exile; his illicit readings of Nietzsche in Communist Poland); to considerations of artist friends past and present (Zbigniew Herbert, Czeslaw Milosz); to intellectual and psychological portraits of cities he has known, east and west; to a dazzling thumbnail sketch of postwar Polish poetry. Zagajewski gives an account of the place of art in the modern age that distinguishes his self-proclaimed liberal vision from the right-wing radicalism of such modernist precursors as Eliot or Yeats. The same mixture of ardor and compassion that marks Zagajewski's distinctive contribution to modern poetry runs throughout this eloquent, engaging collection.

Adam Zagajewski

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Adam Zagajewski (Lvov, actualmente Ucrania, 1945 – Cracovia, 2021) es una de las voces más relevantes de la literatura de las últimas décadas. En 1982 se exilió a París y más tarde a Estados Unidos, donde fue profesor de la Universidad de Chicago. En 2002 se estableció en Cracovia, donde vivió el resto de su vida. Fue galardonado con el Premio Neustadt de Poesía 2004, el Premio Europeo de Poesía 2010 y el Premio Princesa de Asturias de las Letras 2017. Acantilado ha publicado sus libros de poesía Tierra del fuego (2004), Deseo (2005), Antenas (2007), Mano invisible (2012), Asimetría (2017) y Verdadera vida (2023); así como los ensayos En defensa del fervor (2005), Dos ciudades (2006), Solidaridad y soledad (2010), Releer a Rilke (2017) y Una leve exageración (2019).

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