«A World Apart» by Gustaw Herling
Translated by Agnieszka Kołakowska
Wlodzimierz Bolecki author Ryszard Nycz editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Peter Lang AG
Published:29th Mar '15
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Gustaw Herling’s A World Apart is one of the most important books about Soviet camps and communist ideology in the Stalinist period. First published in English in 1951 and translated into many languages, it was relatively unknown till Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago in the 1970s. However, the narrative of the author’s experience in the Jertsevo gulag was highly appreciated by Bertrand Russell, Albert Camus, Jorge Semprun and others. In this first monograph on Herling’s fascinating life, Bolecki discusses hitherto unknown documents from the writer’s archive in Naples. His insight into the subject and poetics of Herling’s book and the account of its remarkable reception offer readers an intriguing profile of one of the most compelling witnesses of the 20th century.
ISBN: 9783631629215
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 470g
268 pages
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