Foucault In Warsaw

Foucault In Warsaw
Remigiusz Ryzinksi, Sean Gasper Bye
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h216 x 140mm - 220pg
17 Jun 2021 US
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9781948830362
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In 1958, Michel Foucault arrived in Poland to work on his thesis-a work that eventually came to be published as The History of Madness. While he was there, he became involved with a number of members of the gay community, including a certain "Jurek," who eventually led the secret police directly to Foucault' s hotel room, causing his subsequent exit from Poland. That boy' s motivations and true identity were hidden among secret police documents for decades, until Remigiusz Ryzinski stumbled upon the right report and uncovered the truth about the whole situation. Nominated for the Nike Literary Award, Foucault in Warsaw reconstructs a vibrant, engaging picture of gay life in Poland under communism-from the joys found in secret nightclubs, to the fears of not knowing who was a secret informant.
Remigiusz Ryzinski is a philosopher, cultural critic, writer, and academic lecturer who works on gender and queer theory; he has published three academic books. He is a graduate of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and has also studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. He has received grants from the French government, the Robert Schuman Polish Foundation, the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland, and the city of Warsaw. Foucault in Warsaw is his literary nonfiction debut. Sean Gasper Bye is a translator of Polish fiction, reportage, and drama. He has published translations of Watercolours by Lidia Ostalowska, History of a Disappearance by Filip Springer, The King of Warsaw by Szczepan Twardoch, and Ellis Island: A People' s History by Malgorzata Szejnert. He' s also published shorter pieces in The Guardian, Words Without Borders, Catapult, World Literature Today, and elsewhere. He is a winner of the 2016 Asymptote Close Approximations Prize, a 2019 National Endowment for the Arts translation fellow, and former Literature and Humanities Curator at the Polish Cultural Institute New York.
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ISBN-13: 9781948830362
Published: 17 Jun 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: Open Letter
Publisher: Open Letter
Format: Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 140mm
Pages: 220

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