ALEXANDER WAT

Aleksander Wat, Richard LourieAleksander Wat's memoirs provide a powerful and moving account of life in Eastern Europe in the devastating 20th century. The questions Wat raises here were put to him by fellow Pole and poet Czeslaw Milosz. Wat describes a vanished world of artistic innovation and political rebellion, but the heart of the book is Wat's encounter with evil in the Soviet camps and his subsequent religious conversion. My Century is a spiritual testimony — admirable, moving, and strong.

Un friso conmovedor de la Europa de siglo XX, tal como apunta Paul Auster: "una obra extraordinaria, una obra maestra en forma de autobiografía. Uno de los libros más c