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Józef Czapski

The Inhuman Land
Na nieludzkiej ziemi

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This book, together with Gustaw Herling-Grudziński’s A World Apart and Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, forms the horrifying canon of witness to a hecatomb of suffering caused by enforcing the communist utopia with unfathomable cruelty by the Soviet apparatus of violence and oppression. Czesław Miłosz praised it in A Year of the Hunter for being an undaunted record of a terrible truth, which is certain to endure longer than any work of art.

About the author:

Józef Czapski (1896–1993) was a painter and writer. Imprisoned in a Soviet camp between 1939 and 1941, he described the experience in Wspomnienia starobielskie. He fought as a Polish Army soldier in Russia and was part of a group ordered to find missing Polish officers. Since 1945 he lived in Paris and co-founded Kultura, the most important Polish emigré magazine covering political, social and cultural themes, issued monthly in the years 1948-2000. He wrote essays on art and literature (Oko, Patrząc, Czytając), as well as memoirs.

Selected titles:

Na nieludzkiej ziemi (The Inhuman Land)
Tumult i widma (Tumult and Spectres)
Patrząc (Looking)
Oko (The Eye)
Dzienniki, wspomnienia, relacje (Diaries, Memoirs, Reports)

Foreign editions:

La terre inhumaine, Editions Plon, 1949
The Inhuman Land, Chatto & Windus, 1951
The Inhuman Land, Polish Cultural Foundation, 1987
Unmenschliche Erde, Kiepenheuer und Witsch, 1967
L’oeil. Essais sur la peinture, L’Age d’Homme, 1982
Proust contre la déchéance, Les Editions Noir sur Blanc, 1987
Souvenirs de Starobielsk, Les Editions Noir sur Blanc, 1987
Tumulte et spectres, Les Editions Noir sur Blanc, 1991

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