Suppressed for decades, this post-World War II memoir of Wladyslaw Szpilman, who survived in Warsaw between 1939 and 1945, offers a testimony to the power of music and humanity.
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Suppressed for decades, this post-World War II memoir of Wladyslaw Szpilman, who survived in Warsaw between 1939 and 1945, offers a testimony to the power of music and humanity.
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Tone Vazquez [Jacket photograph] Very good in Very good jacket. 222, [2] pages. Includes Foreword by Andrzej Szpilman; Chapters cover The Hour of the Children and the Mad; War; The First Germans; My Father Bows to the Germans; Are You Jews? ; Dancing in Chlodna Street; A Fine Gesture by Mrs K; An Anthill Under Threat; The Umschlagplatz; A Chance of Life; 'Marksmen Arise! ; Majorek; Trouble and Strife Next Door; Szalas' Betrayal; In a Burning Building; Death of a City; Life for Liquor; and Nocturne in C sharp minor. Postscript; Extracts from the Diary of Captain Wilm Hosenfeld; and Epilogue by Wolf Biermann: A Bridge Between Wladyslaw Szpilman and Wilm Hosenfeld, by Wolf Biermann. On September 23, 1939, Szpilman, a Warsaw pianist, played Chopin's Nocturne in C Sharp Minor live on the radio, while German shells exploded outside--so loudly that he couldn't hear his piano. It was the last live music broadcast from Warsaw. Later, a German bomb destroyed the power station, and Polish Radio went off the air. The war cast Warsaw into the horror of occupation, the ghetto, the rounding up of the Jews, the uprising and the evacuation of the city--events that killed most of Szpilman's friends and all of his family. But he survived among the ruins of his beloved city. Szpilman's life was saved by a German officer who heard him play the same Chopin nocturne on a piano found among the rubble. After the war, he never spoke of his wartime experiences. But in 1945, he wrote about them, more for himself than for others, to enable him to work through his trauma. The Pianist is a testimony to the power of music, the will to live, and the courage to stand against evil. W adys aw Szpilman (5 December 1911-6 July 2000) was a Polish pianist and classical composer of Jewish descent. Szpilman is widely known as the central figure in the 2002 Roman Polanski film The Pianist, which was based on Szpilman's autobiographical account of how he survived the German occupation of Warsaw and the Holocaust. Szpilman studied piano at music academies in Berlin and Warsaw. He became a popular performer on Polish radio and in concert. Confined within the Warsaw ghetto after the German invasion of Poland, Szpilman spent two years in hiding. Towards the end of his concealment, he was helped by a German officer who detested Nazi policies. After World War II, Szpilman resumed his career on Polish radio. Szpilman was also a prolific composer; his oeuvre included hundreds of songs and many orchestral pieces. In 1998, Szpilman's son Andrzej published new extended edition of his father's memoir, first in German translation from Karin Wolff as Das wunderbare Überleben (The Miraculous Survival) by a German publishing house Ullstein Verlag; and then in English translation by Anthea Bell as The Pianist with Epilogue by Wolf Biermann. In March 1999 W adys aw Szpilman visited London for Jewish Book Week, where he met English readers to mark the publication of the book in Great Britain. It was later published in more than 35 languages, named Best book of the year by Los Angeles Times, Sunday Times, Boston Globe, The Guardian, The Economist, Library Journal, won Annual Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize 2000, Best book of the year 2001 by magazine Lire and Elle (Paris) in 2002. As it reached a much larger audience, Szpilman's memoir was widely praised. Britain's Independent described it as "a compelling, harrowing masterpiece". Derived from a Kirkus review: A striking Holocaust memoir that conveys with exceptional immediacy and cool reportage the author's desperate fight for survival and the German who came to his aid. When WWII broke out he would be forced with his family into the Warsaw ghetto, where he supported them by playing in ghetto cafes. Szpilman's memoir, suppressed by the Polish government shortly after its original publication in 1946, tells the story of the young man's difficult survival in wartime Warsaw and the deportation and death of his entire family. With marked clarity and detachment, Szpilman takes...
