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Nonrequired Reading: Prose Pieces Tapa dura - 2002
de Wislawa Szymborska
Reflecting Poland's Nobel Laureate'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.
Resumen
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.
Primera línea
ANECDOTES ABOUT GREAT people make for bracing reading.
Descripción de contraportada
"Glorious distillations of a capacious mind and heart."--Kirkus Reviews
Wislawa Szymborska's poems are admired around the world, and her tireless wit and uncanny 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 prose pieces collected here are fresh and unexpected, wise and whimsical. Reflecting the author's own eclectic tastes and interests, the pretexts for these ruminations range from books on gardening, wallpapering, beauty, birds, dogs, and yoga, to more lofty volumes on the love lives of Polish kings, opera, and literature. Unpretentious but incisive, these charming pieces are on a par with Szymborska's finest lyrics, tackling the same large and small questions with a wonderful curiosity.
Descripción de la solapa
"Glorious distillations of a capacious mind and heart."--Kirkus Reviews
Wislawa Szymborska's poems are admired around the world, and her tireless wit and uncanny 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 prose pieces collected here are fresh and unexpected, wise and whimsical. Reflecting the author's own eclectic tastes and interests, the pretexts for these ruminations range from books on gardening, wallpapering, beauty, birds, dogs, and yoga, to more lofty volumes on the love lives of Polish kings, opera, and literature. Unpretentious but incisive, these charming pieces are on a par with Szymborska's finest lyrics, tackling the same large and small questions with a wonderful curiosity.
Detalles
- Título Nonrequired Reading: Prose Pieces
- Autor Wislawa Szymborska
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Edición First Edition
- Páginas 256
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Ecco Press, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.
- Fecha de publicación 2002-10-28
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover
- ISBN 9780151006601 / 0151006601
- Peso 1 libras (0.45 kg)
- Dimensiones 8.6 x 5.7 x 0.9 pulgadas (21.84 x 14.48 x 2.29 cm)
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Temas
- Cultural Region: Eastern Europe
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Szymborska, Wisawa
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2002002440
- Dewey Decimal Code 028.1
Extracto
Absent-Minded Professors
Anecdotes about great people make for bracing reading. All right, the reader thinks, so I didn't discover chloroform, but I wasn't the worst student in my class, as Liebig was. Of course I wasn't the first to find salvarsan, but at least I'm not as scatterbrained as Ehrlich, who wrote letters to himself. Mendeleev may be light-years ahead of me as far as the elements go, but I'm far more restrained and better groomed regarding hair. And did I ever forget to show up at my own wedding like Pasteur? Or lock the sugar bowl up to keep my wife out, like Laplace? By comparison with such scientists, we do indeed feel slightly more reasonable, better bred, and perhaps even higher-minded as regards daily living. Moreover, from our vantage point, we know which scientist was right and which was shamefully mistaken. How innocuous someone like Pettenhoffer, for example, seems to us today! Pettenhoffer was a doctor who ferociously battled the findings on bacteria's pathogenetic powers. When Koch discovered the comma bacillus of cholera, Pettenhoffer publicly swallowed a whole testtubeful of these unpleasant microbes in order to demonstrate that the bacteriologists, with Koch at their helm, were dangerous mythomaniacs. This anecdote gains particular luster from the fact that nothing happened to Pettenhoffer. He kept his health and scornfully flaunted his triumph until the end of his days. Why he wasn't infected remains a mystery for medicine. But not for psychology. From time to time people do appear who have a particularly strong resistance to obvious facts. Oh, how pleasant and honorable not to be a Pettenhoffer!
Scientists in Anecdotes by Waclaw Golebowiez, second edition, Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna, 1968.
Copyright © 2002 by Harcourt, Inc.
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Anecdotes about great people make for bracing reading. All right, the reader thinks, so I didn't discover chloroform, but I wasn't the worst student in my class, as Liebig was. Of course I wasn't the first to find salvarsan, but at least I'm not as scatterbrained as Ehrlich, who wrote letters to himself. Mendeleev may be light-years ahead of me as far as the elements go, but I'm far more restrained and better groomed regarding hair. And did I ever forget to show up at my own wedding like Pasteur? Or lock the sugar bowl up to keep my wife out, like Laplace? By comparison with such scientists, we do indeed feel slightly more reasonable, better bred, and perhaps even higher-minded as regards daily living. Moreover, from our vantage point, we know which scientist was right and which was shamefully mistaken. How innocuous someone like Pettenhoffer, for example, seems to us today! Pettenhoffer was a doctor who ferociously battled the findings on bacteria's pathogenetic powers. When Koch discovered the comma bacillus of cholera, Pettenhoffer publicly swallowed a whole testtubeful of these unpleasant microbes in order to demonstrate that the bacteriologists, with Koch at their helm, were dangerous mythomaniacs. This anecdote gains particular luster from the fact that nothing happened to Pettenhoffer. He kept his health and scornfully flaunted his triumph until the end of his days. Why he wasn't infected remains a mystery for medicine. But not for psychology. From time to time people do appear who have a particularly strong resistance to obvious facts. Oh, how pleasant and honorable not to be a Pettenhoffer!
Scientists in Anecdotes by Waclaw Golebowiez, second edition, Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna, 1968.
Copyright © 2002 by Harcourt, Inc.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical,
including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Requests for permission to make copies of any part
of the work should be mailed to the following address:
Permissions Department, Harcourt, Inc.,
6277 Sea Harbor Drive, Orlando, Florida 32887-6777.
Reseñas en medios
PRAISE FOR WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA
"She teaches us how the world defies and evades the names we give it."--Edward Hirsch, The New York Times Magazine
"[Szymborska] is unquestionably one of the great living European poets. She's accessible and deeply human and a joy--though it is a dark kind of joy--to read. . . . She is a poet to live with."--Robert Hass, The Washington Post Book World
"Wislawa Szymborska is not only one of the finest poets living today, but also one of the most readable."--Charles Simic
"She teaches us how the world defies and evades the names we give it."--Edward Hirsch, The New York Times Magazine
"[Szymborska] is unquestionably one of the great living European poets. She's accessible and deeply human and a joy--though it is a dark kind of joy--to read. . . . She is a poet to live with."--Robert Hass, The Washington Post Book World
"Wislawa Szymborska is not only one of the finest poets living today, but also one of the most readable."--Charles Simic
Citas
- Booklist, 10/15/2002, Page 364
- Kirkus Reviews, 08/15/2002, Page 1207
- Library Journal, 11/01/2002, Page 91
- Library Journal Prepub Alert, 06/01/2002, Page 118
- New York Times, 10/20/2002, Page 24
- Publishers Weekly, 09/23/2002, Page 69
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