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NIKE 2003: BOOKS - FINALISTS
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Sun, 10/05/2003 - 02:00
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Short descriptions of seven books - finalists nominated for the 2003 NIKE Literary Prize.
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The final seven books nominated for the NIKE 2003 LITERARY AWARD
(more about the award...)
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Julia Hartwig
, Blyski / Flashes
(more...)
, Sic!
Dorota Maslowska, WOJNA POLSKO-RUSKA POD FLAGA BIALO-CZERWONA / THE POLISH-RUSSIAN WAR UNDER A WHITE AND RED FLAG, Lampa i Iskra Boza
"The Polish-Russian War Under a White and Red Flag is the monologue of Silny (Strong) – a dim-witted, sweat-suit-clad youth from the Tri-City area on the Polish coast. Silny is anarchistic and left leaning; yet he also exhibits nationalistic and xenophobic sentiments. Maslowska uses her unusual literary sensitivity to capture the language of the lower layers of contemporary Polish society. (...) The Polish Russian War... is both a realistic and a surrealistic book. It is prose that tastes like – the poetry of dirty streets and dilapidated apartment blocks. (...) The social focus of the book is sure to bring the author great popularity among readers. She depicts the life of contemporary twenty-year-olds. Thus far this world has only been described in newspaper columns or reportages – that is, from the outside, through the prism of categories created by adults: unemployment, education, crime, and drug addiction." (Wojciech Staszewski 09-18-2002)
"This nineteen-year-old from the coastal town of Wejherowo must have touched a sensitive spot in Poles. Some immediately dubbed her a literary wonder child, while others, in a fit of haughty sarcasm, began treating her as an overrated juvenile. Judging by the outcome of this battle, the enthusiasts have emerged on top. And so what if this wonder child writes of troublemakers, drug addicts, and the brainless inhabitants of a town immersed in an anti-Russian phobia..." (Tadeusz Nyczek 01-15-2003)
Czeslaw Milosz
, Orfeusz i Eurydyka,
Wydawnictwo Literackie
"Orfeusz i Eurydyka / Orpheus and Euridice is an epic poem by Czeslaw Milosz. Written by the poet following the death of his wife Carol in August of this year, it is dedicated to her.
This collectors' edition also contains translations of the poem into English (by Milosz himself and Robert Hass), German, Russian, and Swedish. "This epic poem by our Nobel Prize winner is Love encapsulated – an unusually intense, almost material vision of the eternal story of love and death, of the love triumphing over death, and of the revitalizing, creative power of poetry. Finally, it is the story of Milosz himself, who in this dramatically personal work reformulates his own poetic program: glorifying life, extolling the ‘ungraspable Earth,' rebelling against nothingness."
Jaroslaw Marek Rymkiewicz
, Zachod slonca w Milanowku / The Sunset in Milanowek
(more...)
, Sic!
Wislawa Szymborska
, Chwila / Moment
(more...)
, Znak
Wojciech Tochman, Jakbys kamien jadla / As if you have been eating stone, Pogranicze
"Wojciech Tochman has been in Bosnia many times. His voyages have inspired him to write this reporter's novel titled As If You Have Been Eating Stone. In it the author paints the portraits of women whose loved ones have died at war or who have become engaged in the subsequent healing process. It is the women who have proved the strongest, who must prove the strongest, like Ewa Klonowski, a Polish woman whose task is to identify human remains.
In 2001 Tochman's debut volume titled Schodow sie nie pali / ONE DOESN'T BURN STAIRCASES
(more...)
was among the finalists for the NIKE Literary Award. In 2002 he was nominated for the Nagroda im. Dariusza Fikusa / Dariusz Fikus Prize (granted by 'Rzeczpospolita' daily) for 'texts that uphold the tradition of the literary reportage, with special emphasis on his reports from former Yugoslavia'."
Andrzej Walicki, Rosja, katolicyzm i sprawa polska / Russia, Catholicism and Polish case, Proszynski i S-ka
"This book by professor Andrzej Walicki consists of three studies that focus on the attitudes of 19th century Russian philosophical and religious thought towards both Catholicism and Poland. More than a multi-faceted presentation of issues which are of core importance to Russian 19th century intellectual history, it provides conceptual tools that improve our understanding of disagreements and conflicts that appear today where the Russian Orthodox Church and Catholicism meet.
Andrzej Walicki is a philosopher and intellectual historian. He is viewed as the creator of the field of study that focuses on Russian schools of thought. His published works focus primarily on 19th century Russian philosophical thought and Slavo-philism. He is considered an expert on Polish philosophy of the Romantic age, Russian thought, and Marxism."
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