Author: PECHMANN Alexander
Title: Library of Lost Works
- Place of issue: Warsaw
- Year of publication: 2009
- Publisher: Świat Książki
- Number of pages: 191, [1]
- Illustrations, maps: ---
- Size: 21 cm
- Binding: hardback
- Condition: very good
- ISBN: 9788324711826
Description:
Translated from the German by Sława Lisiecka. Also includes an index.
A collection of passionate essays, full of anecdotes and surprising information about books that... cannot be read. This is because it is about works lost, stolen, destroyed, banned, never written. Their stories are, of course, related to the lives of their creators - Hemingway, Joyce, Flaubert, Goethe, Pushkin, Balzac, Kafka, among others. What happened to Hemingway's debut novel? For what reasons did Lord Byron's family destroy his diaries? What did Thomas Mann and Dostoevsky want to write about?
