The Memoir Of An Anti-hero (Penguin Modern Classics)
Editorial ALLEN LANE
Mainland Spain
- Publisher ALLEN LANE
- ISBN13 9780241351604
- ISBN10 024135160X
- Type Book
- Collection GARDNERS
- Published 2022
- Language English
Sections
English LiteratureThe Memoir Of An Anti-hero (Penguin Modern Classics)
Editorial ALLEN LANE
Mainland Spain
Book Details
provocative, troubling, awkward . . . a proper classic, The Sunday Times Published On: 2019-12-08
Biografía del autor
Kornel Filipowicz (1913-1990) was a Polish novelist, poet and screenwriter. He studied biology in Krakow and lived in that city for most of his life. His first book of poetry, in an edition of ten copies, came out in 1943, and established him as a leading figure in the Polish avant-garde. During the war he was arrested and imprisoned in the Gross-Rosen and Sachsenhausen concentration camps. In later years he became a close friend of the poet and Nobel Laureate Wislawa Szymborska, with whom he exchanged thousands of letters. The first of these he sent in April 1966, enclosing photographs of monkeys from Krakow Zoo.