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Wislawa Szymborska

Optional Reads


Optional Reads is a series of articles about various books read by Wislawa Szymborska. If we want to become further acquainted with the interests of the Nobel Prize winner, her style, brilliant humour, writing concepts, source of ideas for individual poems, way of reading the works of the great and small, then we should most definitely get to know the reflections of this friendly, extremely wise and discerning reader of all kinds of literature. "These short accounts of reads, often extremely earthy and prosaic like a cookbook, radiate humour and resourcefulness. Attesting to the inexhaustible talent of the poet, as invigorating as fresh water." (Grazyna Borkowska) "Optional Reads... is an unweeded garden, through which Szymborska strides with true elegance and grace." (Maciej Cislo, Zycie Warszawy)

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