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041 1  eng|hpol 
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092 0  891.85|bengelska 
100 1  Zagajewski, Adam,|d1945-|eauthor 
240 10 Lekka przesada|lEngelska 
245 10 Slight exaggeration /|cAdam Zagajewski ; translated from 
       the Polish by Clare Cavanagh 
250    First American edition 
264  1 New York :|bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,|c2017 
300    275 pages ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    "A new essay collection by the noted Polish poet For Adam 
       Zagajewski--one of Poland's great poets--the project of 
       writing, whether it be poetry or prose, is an occasion to 
       advance what David Wojahn has characterized as his 
       "restless and quizzical quest for self-knowledge." Slight 
       Exaggeration is an autobiographical portrait of the poet, 
       arranged not chronologically but with that same luminous 
       quality that distinguishes Zagajewski's spellbinding 
       poetry--an affinity for the invisible. In a mosaic-like 
       blend of criticism, reflections, European history, and 
       aphoristic musings, Zagajewski tells the stories of his 
       life in glimpses and reveries--from the Second World War 
       and the occupation of Poland that left his family 
       dispossessed to Joseph Brodsky's funeral on the Venetian 
       island of San Michele--interspersed with intellectual 
       interrogations of the writers and poets (D. H. Lawrence, 
       Giorgos Seferis, Zbigniew Herbert, Paul Valéry), composers
       and painters (Brahms, Rembrandt), and modern heroes 
       (Helmuth James Graf von Moltke) who have influenced his 
       work. A wry and philosophical defense of mystery, Slight 
       Exaggeration recalls Zagajewski's poetry in its delicate 
       negotiation between the earthbound and the ethereal, 
       "between brief explosions of meaning and patient wandering
       through the plains of ordinary days." With an enduring 
       inclination to marvel, Zagajewski restores the world to us
       --necessarily incomplete and utterly astonishing. An 
       analysis, in book-length essay form, of the condition and 
       nature of exile"--|cProvided by publisher 
600 17 Zagajewski, Adam,|d1945-|2sao 
655  7 Essäer|2saogf 
655  7 Essays.|2fast 
700 1  Cavanagh, Clare,|4trl 
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