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# Essays Collections by Zbigniew Herbert

Barbarian in the Garden

Zbigniew Herbert
4.29
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Ten lyrical and passionate essays on the culture, art, and history of Western Europe written from the perspective of the post-Stalinist thaw of the 1960s.
Genres: NonfictionPolish LiteratureArtEssaysHistoryPoetryTravelPolandClassicsCultural
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