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In this way, Szymborska breaks with a traditional mental model according to which ignorance of death is a paradisiacal state. [22] According to Renate Ingbrant, Szymborska often uses an unusual point of view such as the one in the poem, through which the reader not only observes the cat, but is drawn into its feline nature in order to gain new ...
Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska [1] [2] (Polish: [viˈswava ʂɨmˈbɔrska]; 2 July 1923 – 1 February 2012) was a Polish poet, essayist, translator, and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Prowent (now part of Kórnik in west-central Poland), she resided in Kraków until the end of her life.
The Wisława Szymborska Award is a Polish annual international literature prize presented by the Wisława Szymborska Foundation. It was established in 2013, and was named in honour of the Nobel Prize-winning poet Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012). It is awarded to authors of best poetry works published the previous year.
Theodore Landon "Ted" Streleski (1936) was an American former graduate student in mathematics at Stanford University who murdered his former faculty advisor, Professor Karel de Leeuw, with a ball-peen hammer on August 18, 1978.
A lawyer for Ron Goldman’s family is speaking out after O.J. Simpson, who was accused of murdering Goldman in 1994, died at age 76.. Simpson “died without penance,” the attorney said in a ...
[1] Her novel Gedichte (Poems) won the Roswitha von Gandersheim Medal in 1976, an award made to outstanding women writers in German. She worked for publishers until 1998 [1] where she helped the eventual Nobel laureate Wislawa Szymborska. [2] Borchers died in Frankfurt am Main in 2013. [2]
4 Szymborska's style and influence. 1 comment. 5 What the...? 1 comment. 6 About how many people care for the art. 2 comments. 7 B-class review. 1 comment. 8 Themes ...
The White Plague (Czech: Bílá nemoc) is a play written by Czech writer Karel Čapek in 1937. [1] Written at a time of increasing threat from Nazi Germany to Czechoslovakia, it portrays a human response to a tense, prewar situation in an unnamed country that greatly resembles Germany with one extra addition: an uncurable white disease, a form of leprosy, is selectively killing off people ...