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Breathing Under Water and Other East European Essays by Stanisław Barańczak

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challenging emotional funny informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

highly informative and accessible and moving in its clarity! last section was my favorite, particularly the last essay: 
“I have done only what I could and that is to challenge the power of Nothingness by flinging my poem in its featureless face… To spite Nothingness—this is perhaps the essence of the perverse ‘joy of writing,’ ‘the revenge of a mortal hand.’”
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