Zbigniew Herbert Selected Poems recensie, review en informatie boek met gedichten en poëzie van de Poolse dichter. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de Engelse vertaling van gedichten van de uit Poelen afkomstige schrijver Zbigniew Herbert. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek en over de schrijver. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.
Zbigniew Herbert Selected Poems recensie, review en informatie
- “Zbigniew Herbert was one of the best-known and most-translated poets of post-war Poland, opposed alike to Communism, Fascism, nationalism and the Church, yet moved, throughout his work, by ‘a powerful sense of right and wrong without a corresponding belief in a system.” (New York Times)
Selected Poems
- Auteur: Zbigniew Herbert (Polen)
- Soort boek: gedichten, poëzie
- Uitgever: Penguin Modern Classics
- Verschijnt: 28 november 2024
- Omvang: 288 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Prijs: £ 10,99 / £ 5,99
- Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van het boek met gedichten van de Poolse dichter Zbigniew Herbert
be courageous when reason fails you be courageous
in the final reckoning it is the only thing that counts
His is a poetry of compression, lucidity and profound humanity. The universe he conjures is deeply informed not only by his own time, but by history – by that of the Medieval Mediterranean and Central Europe, as much as of the Classical world – and by a taste for historical and philosophical paradox. In the early and middle works, the figure of the trickster never seems far from view. Throughout, Herbert asks questions about the nature and needs of sentient beings. His desire, always, is to ‘touch the essence’: to get to the heart of life.
Selected and introduced by J. M. Coetzee and Alissa Valles, this outstanding gathering from the full range of Herbert’s poetic output invites readers to experience the beauty and profundity of a remarkable body of work.
Zbigniew Herbert was born on 29 october 1929 in Lwów, Poland. He studied law, economics and philosophy at the universities of Krakow, Torun, and Warsaw. His books include Report from the Besieged City and Other Poems, Mr Cogito, Still Life with a Bridle and The King of the Ants. He died on 28 july 1998 in Warsaw.