Defense of Ardor Essays

Name: Defense of Ardor Essays
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ISBN: 9780374529888

ISBN-10: 0374529884

ISBN-13: 9780374529888

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Authors: Adam. Zagajewski, Clare Cavanagh

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Ardor, inspiration, the soul, the sublime: Such terms have long since fallen from favor among critics and artists alike. In his new collection of essays, Adam Zagajewski continues his efforts to reclaim for art not just the terms but the scanted spiritual dimension of modern human existence that they stake out. Bringing gravity and grace to his meditations on art, society, and history, Zagajewski wears his erudition lightly, with a disarming blend of modesty and humor. His topics range from autobiography (his first visit to a post-Soviet Lvov after childhood exile; his illicit readings of Nietzsche in Communist Poland); to considerations of artist friends past and present (Zbigniew…

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List price: $18.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 10/19/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English




A defense of ardor



The shabby and the sublime



Nietzsche in Krakow



Toll and flame



Beginning to remember



Reason and roses



Against poetry



Poerty and doubt



Vacation's end



Should we visit sacred places?



Intellectual Krakow



Gray Paris



Young poets, please read everything



Writing in Polish