Blood From The Sky By Piotr Rawicz
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Blood from the Sky by Piotr Rawicz In this new edition, Anthony Rudolf has restored passages missing from the first English-language editions. His introduction sets the scene for the very early example of the self-referential post-modern novel, but one which is nonetheless compulsively readable. A masterpiece of European and Holocaust literature, Piotr Rawicz's "wantonly brilliant novel" (Irving Howe) was published in 1961. Rawicz's instinctive balance of literary virtuosity and extreme subject matter helps explain the impact of this deeply shocking work. Blood from the Sky is existentially complex and "often horrifyingly funny" (Angus Wilson). It re-presents terrifying and cruel historical events without complicity and without frisson. Few serious novels, even in the literature of the camps and ghettos of occupied Europe, contemplate such violence and cruelty so openly. The book's original American publisher, Helen Woolf, said: "it is the only work which totally transmutes the actual events into a kind of dark poetry". Peter Wiles's highly praised English translation was published in 1964. This newly revised edition by literary critic and translator Anthony Rudolf, in addition, restores passages not included in the 1964 translation.
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