Leopold Tyrmand, a Polish Jew who survived World War II by working in Germany under a false identity, would go on to live and write under Poland’s Communist regime for twenty years before emigrating to the West, where he continued to express his deeply felt anti-Communist views. Diary 1954—written after the independent weekly paper that employed him was closed for refusing to mourn Stalin’s death—is an account of daily life in Communist Poland. Like Czesław Miłosz, Václav Havel, and other dissidents who described the absurdities of Soviet-backed regimes, Tyrmand exposes the lies—big and small—that the regimes employed to stay in power. Witty and insightful, Tyrmand’s diary is the chronicle of a man who uses seemingly minor modes of resistance—as a provocative journalist, a Warsaw intellectual, the "spiritual father" of Polish hipsters, and a promoter of jazz in Poland—to maintain his freedom of thought.

Diary 1954

Tyrmand, Leopold

History

Northwestern University Press

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Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

University Press of America

This collection of essays from Chronicles of Culture criticizes the 'new class' of liberal culture in a witty and urbane fashion.

Ksiazka - legenda. Najpoczytniejszy kryminal napisany w czasach PRL-u. A tak naprawde niezwykle inteligentny opis Polski Ludowej, przebrany w strój ni to kryminalu, ni to romansu, ni to westernu. Zaczyna sie od tajemniczych napadów. Z tym, ze wszyscy atakowani - to bandziory. Ludowa milicja staje na glowie, by dostac jedynego sprawiedliwego, szeryfa bez twarzy, który sprawia, ze ludzie zaczynaja sie czuc bezpieczni. Podziemny swiatek Warszawy rusza na wojne. Bohater ma tylko jeden znak rozpoznawczy, niezwykle, swietliste spojrzenie. A dodatkowo w tle historia milosna, której osia jest Marta Majewska, niechcacy wciagnieta w przestepcze zycie Warszawy.

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Diary 1954

The Ugly Beautiful People

The Ugly Beautiful People

Zly (Polish Edition)