Solidarity, Solitude: Essays by Adam Zagajewski
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Overview: Solidarity, Solitude is a fascinating portrait of Polish society and politics, and one writer’s struggle to formulate his own aesthetic sensibility under the shadow of his heritage, and in a new light. Adam Zagajewski, the most important poet of his generation in Poland, heir to Czeslaw Milosz and Zbigniew Herbert, demystifies the Solidarity movement, communist totalitarianism, and the place of the artist within this difficult social, political, and historical context.
Timely, perceptive, brilliant, this spirited collection of essays is one of those rare books that give the reader a won derfully fresh glimpse of Polish culture at home and in emigration through the wry humor and animated intelligence of one of its own. In characteristic style-cascades of images, observations, analogies, and personification — Zagajewski sees Poland as an dutsider and the West as a Central European. In his work, the tension between the real and the unreal, between form and formlessness, in all constructions of human endeavor— from the platform of a political party, any political party, to the harmonious motion lessness of Vermeer’s Girl Interrupted at Her Music— motivates the tension of language and ideas in a steady movement toward an understanding of the sublime.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational > Politics, Essays
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