Still Life with a Bridle

A gathering of artful essays by one of Poland's most translated post-war writers is here brought to a new audience. Poet and essayist Zbigniew Herbert takes an intriguing look at the cultural, artistic, and aesthetic legacy of 17th-century Holland. These sixteen essays reveal Herbert's discriminating artistic eye and poetic sensibility, one that revels in irony, humour, 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, from Tulipmania to the devastating stirrings of early capitalism. Part travelogue, 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.

Product details

• Authors: Zbigniew Herbert, Herbert Zbigniew
• Publisher: Notting Hill Editions
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2012
• EAN: 9781907903496
• ISBN: 978-1-907903-49-6
• Dimensions: 120 mm x 190 mm x 150 mm
• Weight: 250 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; art, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Literary essays