![]() The most recent volume to come out from this series collects his miscellaneous essays and-most significantly-his memoirs of the time he spent in the Soviet war camp. Over the past few years, a series of translations and a beautifully crafted biography, all out from New York Review Books, have gradually introduced Czapski to Anglophone audiences. ![]() Czapski enlisted, was promptly captured by the Soviets, and led to a prisoner-of-war camp from which very few Polish officers came out alive. He returned to Poland in the 1930s, where he was just starting to enjoy his status as an established, nationally recognized artist when Nazi forces and the Red Army entered its borders. A gifted painter and essayist, he then spent a decade in Paris, leading a bohemian lifestyle in the company of such famed modernists as Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso. Born in the last years of the nineteenth century into an aristocratic, multilingual family based in Prague, he began to identify with the Polish part of his lineage and moved to newly independent Poland after the end of World War I. Some of these vocations he chose for himself, to the extent anyone can others were imposed upon him by dramatic historical events. In his life, Count Józef Hutten-Czapski (1896–1993)-later known just as Józef or Józio Czapski-pursued many vocations. Memories of Starobielsk: Essays Between Art and History ![]()
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