Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society
Mr Cogito (Oxford Poets)
A defining poetry collection built around Mr. Cogito, Herbert's alter ego and moral observer. It is one of Zbigniew Herbert's most important books.
Work Information
Poems that combine allegory and concrete detail to sketch the thinking self.
Through Mr. Cogito, the poems ask how an individual should answer history and violence. The collection shows Herbert at his most morally tense and concise.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Oxford Univ Pr
- Published
- 1993-06-01
- Pages
- 62 pages
- Language
- 英語
- ISBN-13
- 9780192828736
- ISBN-10
- 0192828738
- Price
- 10649 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction
This is the long-awaited translation of the volume Pan Cogito (Warsaw, 1974), now published in English translation as a full sequence of 40 poems for the first time. Writing of earlier volumes, the New Yorker said that `Herbert is one of the finest and most original writers of this century...a stubbornly idiosyncratic poet of isolation, disinheritance, and grief.' Mr Cogito acts as the award-winning poet's alibi, alias, persona, or as Seamus Heaney has said, `as a representative of the most courageous, well-disposed and unremittingly intelligent members of the species. This book is intended for admirers of Zbigniew Herbert; readers of poetry; libraries; universities.