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Zusatztext "[Wittlin's essay My Lwów is] for many Poles the definitive evocation of one of their great lost cities. . . a loving! sensuous! but also gently ironic reconstruction. . . Sands’s perspective is closer to that of the contemporary reader! who struggles with the juxtaposition between beauty! faded grandeur! and whimsical visions of a cosmopolitan past on the one hand! and savage mass murder on the other." —Los Angeles Review of Books "Congratulations to Pushkin Press for bringing lovely! haunted Lviv to a new audience." — Times Literary Supplement "A walk down memory lane! a meditation on time! politics and remembrance." — Dublin Review of Books "Wittlin takes us on a detailed tour of the city... well-illustrated." — East-West Review "Beautiful and disturbing songs in prose." - Kazimierz Wierzynski Informationen zum Autor Józef Wittlin (born 1896) was a major Polish poet! novelist! essayist and translator. He studied in Vienna! where he met Joseph Roth and Rainer Maria Rilke! before serving in the Austro-Hungarian army in the First World War. He published one novel and numerous collections of poetry! many of which were characterised by their strong pacifist sentiments. With the outbreak of WWII he fled to France and then to New York! where he died in 1976. Philippe Sands is a professor of Law at University College London. He specialises in International Law and International disputes. He has also published many books! including Lawless World: America and the Making and Breaking of Global Rules . His latest book is East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity" . Klappentext Portrait of a City in Two Acts: Lviv, Then and NowPortrait of a City in Two Acts: Lviv, Then and Now Zusammenfassung Portrait of a City in Two Acts: Lviv, Then and Now
