Disenchanted Europeans
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Disenchanted Europeans

Polish Émigré Writers from Kultura and Postwar Reformulations of the West

  1. 472 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Disenchanted Europeans

Polish Émigré Writers from Kultura and Postwar Reformulations of the West

About this book

As Europe experienced tumultuous change after the Second World War, two Polish exiles, Jerzy Stempowski (1893–1969) and Andrzej Bobkowski (1913–1961), discussed and redefined their ideas of the continent in the pages of Kultura, the Polish émigré review. Highlighting the changes in their writings about «the West», «the East» and «civilization», this book pieces together the evolution of their own self-understanding as Europeans, the overlooked shifts of accents along with silences and falsifications. By following these two writers' accounts of the events that led them from Poland and Ukraine to France, West Germany, Switzerland, the United States and Latin America, this study shows the tension between changing discourses and individual lives, between the wider concept of Europe and the experience of exile, emigration and belonging.

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Information

Publisher
Peter Lang Group
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9783034318440
eBook ISBN
9781788741873
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
English Language
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Figures
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Introduction: What About Us? Polish Exiles from Kultura and the European Dilemma
  6. Part I: The Last of the Europeans: Jerzy Stempowski Bids Farewell to His Land
  7. Part II: Angry Young European: Andrzej Bobkowski Leaves the Continent Behind
  8. Conclusion: Occidentalism and Its Discontents
  9. Bibliography
  10. Index