DUNIN-KOZICKA Marja
STORM FROM THE EAST
Memories from the Kiev region ( 1918-1920)
with a foreword by Prof. St. Estraicher
Warsaw 1929, published by Dom Książki Polska Spółka Akcyjna, pp. 512, f. plates 7; format 15 x 21 cm;
"A storm broke loose over our lands, tearing, destroying, burning, devastating 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 Kievszczyzna (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 Ukraine - a land inhabited by various 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 SEMI CONTEMPORARY LEATHER, RAISED GILT ON SPINE, STAINED PAGE EDGES
DB condition/ spine bias, minor paper yellowing
