Still Life with a Bridle: Essays and Apocryphas - Softcover

Herbert, Z

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0880013206 ISBN 13: 9780880013208

Publisher: Eco Press, 1993

Synopsis

In Still Life with a Bridle, poet and essayist Zbigniew Herbert takes an intriguing look at the cultural, artisitic, and aesthetic legacy of 17th-century Holland. These sixteen essays reveal Hervert's discriminating artistic eye and poetic sensibility, one that revels in irony, humor, and a satirist's appreciation of the absurd. An inveterate museum-goer, he focuses on the art of the Dutch masters, using it as a stepping-off point for a thoroughly individual and entertaining examination of the foibles, genius, and character of the Dutch people as a whole. The result is an unorthodox and revealing glimpse into the past that gives us a keener understanding not only of a distant people, but of ourselves as well.

About this title

About the Author:

Zbigniew Herbert (29 October 1924 in Lwow [then Poland, now Lviv, Ukraine] - 28 July 1998 in Warsaw) was a Polish poet,essayist, drama writer, author of plays, and moralist. A member of the Polish resistance movement, Home Army (AK), during World War II, he is one of the best known and the most translated post-war Polish writers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Eco Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0880013206
• ISBN 13: 9780880013208
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176