Foucault in Warsaw - Couverture souple

Ryzinksi, Remigiusz

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1948830361 ISBN 13 : 9781948830362

Editeur : Open Letter, 2021

Synopsis

In 1958, Michel Foucault arrived in Poland to work on his thesis - a work that eventually came to be published as The History of Madness. While he was there, he became involved with a number of members of the gay community, including a certain 'Jurek,' who eventually lead the secret police directly to Foucault's hotel room, causing his subsequent exit from Poland. That boy's motivations and true identity were hidden among secret police documents for decades, until Remigiusz Ryzinski stumbled upon the right report and uncovered the truth about the whole situation. Nominated for the Nike Literary Award, Foucault in Warsaw reconstructs a vibrant, engaging picture of gay life in Poland under communism - from the joys found in secret nightclubs, to the fears of not knowing who was a secret informant.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Remigiusz Ryziński is a philosopher, cultural critic, writer, and academic lecturer who works on gender and queer theory; he has published three academic books. He is a graduate of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and has also studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. He has received grants from the French government, the Robert Schuman Polish Foundation, the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland, and the city of Warsaw. Foucault in Warsaw is his literary nonfiction debut.

Sean Gasper Bye is a translator of Polish fiction, reportage, and drama. He has published translations of Watercolours by Lidia Ostalowska, History of a Disappearance by Filip Springer, The King of Warsaw by Szczepan Twardoch, and Ellis Island: A People's History by Malgorzata Szejnert. He's also published shorter pieces in The Guardian, Words Without Borders, Catapult, World Literature Today, and elsewhere. He is a winner of the 2016 Asymptote Close Approximations Prize, a 2019 National Endowment for the Arts translation fellow, and former Literature and Humanities Curator at the Polish Cultural Institute New York.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Open Letter
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1948830361
• ISBN 13: 9781948830362
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 220
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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