Name: Slight Exaggeration: An Essay
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Author: Adam Zagajewski
ISBN: 9780374537517

Type

Physical Book

Author

Adam Zagajewski

Publisher

Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl

Language

English

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21x14x1.6 cm

Weight

0.35 kg.

ISBN13

9780374537517

Synopsis "Slight Exaggeration: An Essay"

A new essay collection by the noted Polish poet For Adam Zagajewski--one of Poland's great poets--the project of writing, whether it be poetry or prose, is an occasion to advance what David Wojahn has characterized as his "restless and quizzical quest for self-knowledge." Slight Exaggeration is an autobiographical portrait of the poet, arranged not chronologically but with that same luminous quality that distinguishes Zagajewski's spellbinding poetry--an affinity for the invisible. In a mosaic-like blend of criticism, reflections, European history, and aphoristic musings, Zagajewski tells the stories of his life in glimpses and reveries--from the Second World War and the occupation of Poland that left his family dispossessed to Joseph Brodsky's funeral on the Venetian island of San Michele--interspersed with intellectual interrogations of the writers and poets (D. H. Lawrence, Giorgos Seferis, Zbigniew Herbert, Paul Valéry), composers and painters (Brahms, Rembrandt), and modern heroes (Helmuth James Graf von Moltke) who have influenced his work. A wry and philosophical defense of mystery, Slight Exaggeration recalls Zagajewski's poetry in its delicate negotiation between the earthbound and the ethereal, "between brief explosions of meaning and patient wandering through the plains of ordinary days." With an enduring inclination to marvel, Zagajewski restores the world to us--necessarily incomplete and utterly astonishing.

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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