| Danse Macabre: Memoir of a Polish Girl at the Time of the Russian Revolution (1914/1924) Contributor(s): Rochas, Irene (Author) |
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ISBN: 0578149168 ISBN-13: 9780578149165 Publisher: A.M. Benis OUR PRICE: $18.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2014 |
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| BISAC Categories: - History |
| Physical Information: 0.76" H x 6" W x 9" (1.10 lbs) 340 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Memoir of a Polish Girl at the Time of the Russian Revolution (1914/1924). Expanded second edition with additional photographs. Irene Rochas was born Aniela Tarnowicz in Warsaw in 1906, the youngest child in a large upper middle-class Polish family. With the outbreak of WW I in 1914, Irene and her family were stranded in Moscow, and with the further outbreak of the Bolshevik Revolution, they were able to return to their homeland only after a delay of four years. Irene's rediscovered narrative - written when she was fifty years old and set in the form of a novel - is a remembrance of those eventful years of her childhood in Moscow and Warsaw. In this sense, it is truly a "memoir". Yes, "danse macabre" is the dance of death, the last waltz to which we are all invited. But Irene's "Danse Macabre" -- with its inquisitive and empathetic tone... and its often searing imagery -- is less a rumination on the inevitability of death and more a testament to the vibrancy of life itself. 340 pp., Endnote, 30 plates] |
