DUNIN-KOZICKA Marja
STORM FROM THE EAST
Memories from Kyiv ( 1918-1920)
With a foreword by Prof. St. Estraicher
with 12 illustrations
Cracow 1925, Nakładem Krakowskiej Spółki Wydawniczej, pp. XIII, 512, format 14 x 19.5 cm;
"A storm broke loose over our lands, tearing, destroying, burning, destroying and breaking everything it encountered along the way, driving us before it into the world... wanderers and castaways. In front of us went death - behind us remained emptiness!" Excerpt from the text.
"Memories from Kyiv (1918-1920) is the author's debut novel by a resolution of the International Commission for Intellectual Cooperation in the League of Nations included in the list of the most outstanding Polish literary works for the year 1925. The scene of the events depicted here is Kyiv - a land inhabited by different nations and states, a land torn by the turbulent accidents of history; and the heroes are Polish landowners, faithful to the myth of the Borderlands and the conviction of the peculiar mission performed by them in these areas." (source: http://lubimyczytac.pl/ksiazka/75475/burza-od-wschodu)
The tragic days of pogroms against the Polish nobility in the Taraszcza district, described here, have been called the end of the Polish world in the Borderlands.
HARDCOVER CLOTH BINDING OF THE PERIOD, WITH GILDING
Condition DB pre-title p. taped, signature on.
