Analyzes poetry written in the ghettos and concentration camps, with special emphasis on the works of Abraham Sutzkever (Vilna) and Władysław Szlengel (Warsaw). Contends that the underlying principle in most of this poetry was to offer testimony, but it also indicates the spirit…
"Ijon Tichy is an ordinary space traveler whose extraordinary curiosity leads him to scientists working on the fringes of knowledge. Their plans are grandiose, the bargains they make too often Faustian, for the ends these scientists pursue concern humanity's greatest and most an…
Introduction: The margins of Europe: a new comparison -- The dynamic ideal and the protean self: Adam Zagajewski -- Figuring otherness in the work of Adam Zagajewski -- Belonging on the edge: Derek Mahon's outsider poetics -- Inhabiting the earth: Derek Mahon's dissonances and h…