Aleksander Wat (1900–1967)
Autore di Il mio secolo: memorie e discorsi con Czesław Miłosz
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Fonte dell'immagine: Aleksander Wat foto: Modernista
Opere di Aleksander Wat
Zeszyty Literackie 1 copia
Mój wiek [Dokument elektroniczny] : fragmenty rozmów Aleksandra Wata z Czesławem Miłoszem (2011) 1 copia
Korespondencja. Cz. 1 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Chwat, Aleksander
- Data di nascita
- 1900-05-01
- Data di morte
- 1967-07-29
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Poland
- Luogo di nascita
- Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire
- Luogo di morte
- Antony, Hauts-de-Seine, France
- Luogo di residenza
- Warsaw, Poland
Lwow, Poland
Paris, France
California, USA
Moscow, Russia
Kiev, Ukraine (mostra tutto 7)
Saratov, Russia - Istruzione
- University of Warsaw
- Attività lavorative
- poet
art theorist
writer
memoirist
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 24
- Opere correlate
- 4
- Utenti
- 340
- Popolarità
- #70,096
- Voto
- 4.2
- Recensioni
- 5
- ISBN
- 47
- Lingue
- 7
- Preferito da
- 4
Wat gained interesting insights into Stalin's system. For example, he recognized that the significance of the millions in slave labor camps rested not so much in the unfortunate ones in the camps but rather in the masses not (yet) sent there: every citizen had a close relative or friend, probably innocent, inside a camp, and so was cowed by personal and daily reminders of Stalin's arbitrary and unlimited grip.
Wat is arrested about 1/3 of the way into the book and is in one or another prison for most of the rest. This part of the above blurb: "... artistic, sexual, and political experimentation --in which Wat was a major participant-- that followed the end of World War I: an explosion of talent and ideas which, he argues, in some ways helped to open the door to the destruction that the Nazis and Bolsheviks soon visited upon the world" smacks of sales pitch.
Wat's bravery and his intelligence, optimism and honesty in grave circumstances and in the telling of them, save his story from being oppressive.… (altro)