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In one of the last interviews, from 1969, Giuseppe Cardillo talks to Pier Paolo Pasolini, director of cult films such as Salo or 120 days of Sodom and Decameron, writer, poet and one of the most important intellectuals of Italy in the 20th century
A book of interviews in which Kołakowski retrospectively describes his life and intellectual journey through the turbulent 20th century – from pre-war Poland, through Nazi occupation, Stalinism, revisionist Marxism, to exile in the West.
Vietnam features Mary McCarthy's travelogues of war-torn Vietnam. The author critically portrays the war, political propaganda, and the dire consequences of the conflict for the civilian population.
Sadik Salimović's Book of Srebrenica (2002) is a memoir of the city: from Ottoman settlement, Islamization and development to the war suffering of 1992–1995 and genocide. It preserves the identity and memory of life before and after the tragedy.
How fortunate that today we have access to the most important recordings of conversations with André Gide, Henry James, Marcel Proust, Walt Whitman...
A vivid account of the author's trip to Afghanistan in 1921-1922, a country in a turbulent period of modernization under the reformist king Amanullah Khan, the clash of tradition and the new age, and the exotic life of Afghan society.