Still Alive: An Autobiographical Essay

Still Alive recounts the perilous odyssey of a renowned man of letters through the endless political crises of Eastern Europe in the mid-twentieth-century. Jan Kott―Polish essayist and theater critic, author of the landmark work Shakespeare Our Contemporary, winner of literary awards on two continents―tells of his association with the Surrealist circles in Paris before the Second World War, his adventures as a partisan in the Polish underground fighting the Nazis, his postwar involvement in the Polish Communist Party, his disillusionment with communism and, finally, his emigration to America. His story reveals not only the dramatic turns of an individual life but also the fate of a whole generation of Eastern European intellectuals.At once witty, suspenseful, and profound, Kott's memoir begins with a bocci game played in 1939 with Trotsky's future murderer and ends with a deeply moving description of his fifth heart attack in 1991 that illuminates the book's main concern: how to make sense of one's own existence. Kott does not pose this as a philosophic problem, but as one given by the extreme situations he was forced to master and survive. This is the remarkable testimony of a man whose life brought him many opportunities to face the consequences of radical choice and in whom the consciousness of those essential encounters continues to resonate.Published in Polish in 1990 and acclaimed by critics throughout Europe, the book is now available in English for the first time. Kott has added much new material to this edition, including the final chapter.

Biographies & Memoirs

Kott, Jan

Historical

Yale University Press

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The eating of the gods;: An interpretation of Greek tragedy

Literature & Fiction

Ancient & Medieval Literature

Random House]

In The Eating of the Gods the distinguished Polish critic Jan Kott reexamines Greek tragedy from the modern perspective. As in his earlier acclaimed Shakespeare Our Contemporary, Kott provides startling insights and intuitive leaps which link our world to that of the ancient Greeks. The title refers to the Bacchae of Euripides, that tragedy of lust, revenge, murder, and "the joy of eating raw flesh" which Kott finds paradigmatic in its violence and bloodshed.

The Eating of the Gods: An Interpretation of Greek Tragedy

Vintage Books

Book by Marlowe, Christopher, Cookson, Linda, Kott, Jan

Doctor Faustus (Longman Study Texts)

Education & Teaching

MARLOWE, Christopher

Cookson, Linda

Schools & Teaching

Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd

Essays discuss Shakespeare, Gogol, Ibsen, Ionesco, noh plays, kabuki theater, theater of the absurd, and modern Polish playwrights

Theater of Essence

Humor & Entertainment

Northwestern University Press

The sixteen essays collected in The Theater of Essence define the point of view of one of the most influential theater critics of our time. Jan Kott's subjects extend from Tadeusz Borowski, Ibsen, Ionesco, and Gogol to Bunraku theater in Japan, Yiddish theater in New York, and Grotowski's theater in Poland.

The Theater of Essence

The Bottom Translation: Marlowe and Shakespeare and the Carnival Tradition

The Bottom Translation represents the first critical attempt at applying the ideas and methods of the great Russian critic, Mikhail Bakhtin, to the works of Shakespeare and other Elizabethans. Professor Kott uncovers the cultural and mythopoetic traditions underlying A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest, Dr. Faustus, and other plays. His method draws him to interpret these works in the light of the carnival and popular tradition as it was set forth by Bakhtin. The Bottom Translation breaks new ground in critical thinking and theatrical vision and is an invaluable source of new ideas and perspectives. Included in this volume is also an extraordinary essay on Kurosawa's "Ran" in which the Japanese filmmaker recreates King Lear.

British & Irish

The Bottom Translation represents the first critical attempt at applying the ideas and methods of the great Russian critic, Mikhail Bakhtin, to the works of Shakespeare and other Elizabethans. Professor Kott uncovers the cultural and mythopoetic traditions underlying A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest, Dr. Faustus, and other plays. His method draws him to interpret these works in the light of the carnival and popular tradition as it was set forth by Bakhtin. The Bottom Translation breaks new ground in critical thinking and theatrical vision and is an invaluable source of new ideas and perspectives. Included in this volume is also an extraordinary essay on Kurosawa's "Ran" in which the Japanese filmmaker recreates King Lear.

Dramas & Plays

In The Eating of the Gods the distinguished Polish critic Jan Kott reexamines Greek tragedy from the modern perspective. As in his earlier acclaimed Shakespeare Our Contemporary, Kott provides startling insights and intuitive leaps which link our world to that of the ancient Greeks. The title refers to the Bacchae of Euripides, that tragedy of lust, revenge, murder, and "the joy of eating raw flesh" which Kott finds paradigmatic in its violence and bloodshed.

Eating of the Gods

The Gender of Rosalind: Interpretations: Shakespeare, Buchner, Gautier

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Still Alive: An Autobiographical Essay

The eating of the gods;: An interpretation of Greek tragedy

The Eating of the Gods: An Interpretation of Greek Tragedy

Doctor Faustus (Longman Study Texts)

Theater of Essence

The Theater of Essence

The Bottom Translation: Marlowe and Shakespeare and the Carnival Tradition

The Bottom Translation: Marlowe and Shakespeare and the Carnival Tradition

Eating of the Gods

The Gender of Rosalind: Interpretations: Shakespeare, Buchner, Gautier