Books By Miron Bialoszewski - Author

Miron Bialoszewski (1922-1983) was born in Warsaw, the son of a postal clerk. During the German occupation of Poland in World War II, he studied Polish literature in an underground school, though he never obtained any kind of degree. Not a combatant, he was deported to a German work camp following the Warsaw Uprising, escaped after a month and, as the war drew to its end, returned to his devastated city. Bialoszewski worked as a journalist, writing poetry at night, though it was not until 1956 that his first volume of poetry, Obroty rzeczy (The Revolution of Things), appeared to great acclaim. Additional volumes of poetry and short prose texts followed, while Bialoszewski also wrote plays for and acted with the collaborative and experimental Tarczynska Street Theater. A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising came out in 1970.

Madeline G. Levine is Kenan Professor of Slavic Literatures Emerita at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her translations from the Polish include The Woman from Hamburg and Other True Stories by Hanna Krall, Bread for the Departed by Bogdan Wojdowski, four volumes of prose by Czeslaw Milosz including Beginning with My Streets: Essays and Recollections and Milosz's ABC's, and a new English version of the collected stories of Bruno Schulz (forthcoming).