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Biographical note
Józef Wittlin (born 1896) was a major Polish poet, novelist, essayist and translator. He studied in Vienna, where he met Joseph Roth and Rainer Maria Rilke, before serving in the Austro-Hungarian army in the First World War. He published one novel and numerous collections of poetry, many of which were characterised by their strong pacifist sentiments. With the outbreak of WWII he fled to France and then to New York, where he died in 1976. Philippe Sands is a professor of Law at University College London. He specialises in International Law and International disputes. He has also published many books, including East West Street and The Ratline.[Philippe Sands'] essay makes for a sober and solid balance to Wittlin's more skittish approach, and completes the book perfectly
- John Self, Asylum
Congratulations to Pushkin Press for bringing lovely, haunted Lviv to a new audience
TLS
A walk down memory lane, a meditation on time, politics and remembrance
Dublin Review of Books
Beautiful and disturbing songs in prose
Kazimierz Wierzynski
The combined effect of the two pieces collected here is to paint a wonderfully evocative picture of Lvov now and then... a timely and excellent release by Pushkin Press. Highly recommended
Kaggy's Bookish Ramblings (blog)
A detailed tour... well-illustrated
East-West Review
Brief, plangent, and utterly delectable... What a pleasure this voyage is... Wittlin's book is so sensuous, so pungent, so delightful that the main question it prompts is: Why don't we have a whole library of such guides?
LA Review of Books
A loving, sensuous, but also gently ironic reconstruction of a lost city
LA Review of Books