A review of Between East and West: Writings from “Kultura”, edited by Robert Kostrzewa.
About the Author
Stanisław Barańczak, who emigrated from Poland in 1981, is the Alfred Jurzykowski Professor of Polish Language and Literature at Harvard University and author of Breathing Under Water and Other East European Essays (1990).
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