City of Lions: Portrait of a City in Two Acts: Lviv, Then and Now - Couverture souple

Wittlin, Jozef; Sands QC, Philippe

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1805330012 ISBN 13 : 9781805330011

Editeur : Pushkin Press, 2023

Synopsis

City of Lions, 9781805330011

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Józef Wittlin (born 1896) was a major Polish poet, novelist, essayist, and translator. He studied in Vienna, where he met Joseph Roth and Rainer Maria Rilke, before serving in the Austro-Hungarian army in the First World War. He published one novel and numerous collections of poetry, many of which were characterised by their strong pacifist sentiments. With the outbreak of WWII he fled to France and then to New York, where he died in 1976.

Philippe Sands is a professor of Law at University College London. He specialises in International Law and International disputes. He has also published many books, including East West Street and The Ratline.

Antonia Lloyd-Jones translates from Polish, and is the 2018 winner of the Transatlantyk Award for the most outstanding promoter of Polish literature abroad. She has translated works by several of Poland's leading contemporary authors.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Lviv, Lwow, Lvov, Lemberg. Known by a variety of names. Here are two essays, written more than half a century apart - but united by one city. With an illuminating
new preface and stunning new photographs by Diana Matar, it's a powerful and melancholy evocation of central Europe in the twentieth century.

Lviv, Lwów, Lvov, Lemberg. Known by a variety of names, the City of Lions is now in western Ukraine. Situated in different countries during its history, it is a city located along the fault-lines of Europe's history. City of Lions presents two essays, written more than half a century apart - but united by one city. Józef Wittlin's sensual and lyrical paean to his Lwów, written in exile, is a deep cry of love and pain for his city, where most people he knew have fled or been killed. Philippe Sands' finely honed exploration of what has been lost and what remains interweaves a lawyer's love of evidence with the emotional heft of a descendant of Lviv. With an illuminating preface by Eva Hoffman and stunning new photographs by Diana Matar, City of Lions is a powerful and melancholy evocation of central Europe in the twentieth century, with a special resonance for today's troubled continent.

About the Author
Jozef Wittlin (1896-1976), Polish novelist, essayist and poet, studied Philosophy, German, French and History of Art before he was drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army in 1914. Discharged from the army two years later on the grounds of poor health, he became a teacher and turned to writing, and published Polish translations of the Epic of Gilgamesh and Homer's Odyssey in the 1920s. His novel Salt of the Earth (1936), has been translated into several languages and its American publication in 1941 resulted in awards from the Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Wittlin left Poland shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, and eventually settled in New York City.

Philippe Sands, QC, is a barrister, writer and Professor of Law at UCL, London, specialising in international law. He is a regular commentator on the BBC and CNN and writes frequently for leading newspapers.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pushkin Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• ISBN 10: 1805330012
• ISBN 13: 9781805330011
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible