Name: nonrequired reading,prose pieces
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Author: Szymborska, Wislawa
ISBN: 9780151006601

portada nonrequired reading,prose pieces

Type

Physical Book

Author

Wislawa Szymborska

Publisher

Ecco Press

Year

2002

Language

English

Pages

256

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

21.8 x 14.5 x 2.3 cm

Weight

0.45 kg.

ISBN13

9780151006601

Synopsis "nonrequired reading,prose pieces"

Wislawa Szymborska's poems are admired around the world, and her unsparing vision, tireless wit, and deep sense of humanity are cherished by countless readers. Unknown to most of them, however, Szymborska also worked for several decades as a columnist, reviewing a wide variety of books under the unassuming title "Nonrequired Reading."As readers of her poems would expect, the short prose pieces collected here are anything but ordinary. Reflecting the author's own eclectic tastes and interests, the pretexts for these ruminations range from books on wallpapering, cooking, gardening, and yoga, to more lofty volumes on opera and world literature. Unpretentious yet incisive, these charming pieces are on a par with Szymborska's finest lyrics, tackling the same large and small questions with a wonderful curiosity.

Wislawa Szymborska

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Wislawa Szymborska (Kórnik, Poland, 1923 – Krakow, 2012) was a Polish poet of great international renown, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996. Her poetry is noted for its precision, irony, and philosophical depth, exploring themes such as everyday life, existence, and wonder at the seemingly simple

Throughout her career, she published more than fifteen books of poetry, among the most important are: "That's Why We Live" (1952), "Questions to Oneself" (1954), "Salt" (1962), "A Hundred Joys" (1967), "Large Number" (1976), "People on the Bridge" (1986), "End and Beginning" (1993), and "Here" (2009). In addition to her poetry, she wrote essays where she also showed her sharp reflection

Her work is characterized by the combination of simple and accessible language with a deep and reflective background. This approach earned her, in addition to the Nobel, awards such as the Goethe (1991) and the Herder (1995), consolidating her as an essential voice of contemporary Polish and global poetry. Szymborska distinguished herself by her ability to reveal the extraordinary in the everyday, always with a tone both serious and subtly humorous, making her a key author to understand the poetry of the 20th century.

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