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Memories of Starobielsk: Essays Between Art and History

Memories of Starobielsk: Essays Between Art and History

Gross, Irena Grudzinska
Czapski, Jozef
Valles, Alissa

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Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 1681374862
ISBN13: 9781681374864
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Mar 1 2022
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Vivid accounts of life in a Soviet prison camp by the author of Inhuman Land.

Interned with thousands of Polish officers in the Soviet prisoner-of-war camp at Starobielsk in September 1939, Józef Czapski was one of a very small number to survive the massacre in the forest of Katyń in April 1940. Memories of Starobielsk portrays these doomed men, some with the detail of a finished portrait, others in vivid sketches that mingle intimacy with respect, as Czapski describes their struggle to remain human under hopeless circumstances. Essays on art, history, and literature complement the memoir, showing Czapski's lifelong engagement with Russian culture. The short pieces on painting that he wrote while on a train traveling from Moscow to the Second Polish Army's strategic base in Central Asia stand among his most lyrical and insightful reflections on art.

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