Memories of Starobielsk

Essays Between Art and History

Memories of Starobielsk
Alissa Valles, Jozef Czapski
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h203 x 127mm - 144pg
9 Mar 2021 US
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9781681374864
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Interned with thousands of Polish army officers and a handful of civilians in the Soviet prisoner-of-war camp at Starobielsk in September 1939, the artist J zef Czapski was one of a very small number to survive the massacre carried out in the forest of Katyn in April 1940. In prose written while the war still raged, Czapski portrays these doomed men, some with the detail of a finished portrait and others in vivid sketches imbued with a rare combination of intimacy and respect, registering their fierce striving to remain fully engaged in humane pursuits under hopeless circumstances. This memoir is complemented by essays on art, history, and literature that show Czapski' s lifelong attachment to the Russian culture that educated him, in all its contradictory manifestations, from the poet Aleksandr Blok' s fascinated response to revolution to the lonely struggle of the painter Chaim Soutine. They include a wartime sequence of short essays on painting written on a train when Czapski was traveling from Moscow to the Second Polish Army' s strategic base in Central Asia, which are among his most lyrical and insightful reflections on art.
J zef Czapski (1896-1993) was a writer and artist, as well as an officer in the Polish army. NYRB Classics publishes his work of reportage about the Katyn Massacre, Inhuman Land, and a collection of his lectures on Proust during his time as a P. O. W. in a Soviet prison camp, Lost Time. New York Review Books also publishes Eric Karpeles' s biography of Czapski, Almost Nothing. Alissa Valles is the author, most recently, of the poetry collection Hospitium. Her translations include Zbigniew Herbert' s Collected Poems and Collected Prose and Ryszard Krynicki' s Our Life Grows (NYRB Poets). She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Irena Grudzin ska Gross' s books include Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph Brodsky- Fellowship of Poets and The Scar of Revolution- Tocqueville, Custine, and the Romantic Imagination. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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ISBN-13: 9781681374864
Published: 9 Mar 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: The New York Review of Books Inc
Publisher: The New York Review of Books Inc
Format: Paperback
Height: 203mm
Width: 127mm
Pages: 144

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