Marja Dunin-Kozicka
A STORM FROM THE EAST
Memoirs from the Kiev Region (1918–1920)
with a foreword by Prof. St. Estraicher
with 12 illustrations
Kraków 1925, Published by the Kraków Publishing Company, pp. XIII, 512, size 14 x 19.5 cm;
“A storm raged across our lands, tearing, destroying, burning, shattering, and breaking everything in its path, driving us before it into the world… of exiles and castaways. Death marched ahead of us—behind us lay emptiness!” Excerpt from the text.
"Memories of the Kyiv Region (1918–1920) is the author’s debut novel, which, by resolution of the International Commission for Intellectual Cooperation of the League of Nations, was included on the list of the most outstanding Polish literary works for the year 1925. The setting for the events depicted here is Ukraine—a land inhabited by various nations and social classes, a region torn by the turbulent events of history; and the protagonists are Polish landowners, faithful to the myth of the Borderlands and the conviction that they were fulfilling a unique mission in those territories". (source: http://lubimyczytac.pl/ksiazka/75475/burza-od-wschodu)
The tragic days of the pogroms against the Polish nobility in the Taraszcza County described here have been called the end of the Polish world in the Borderlands.
HARDCOVER CANVAS BINDING FROM THE PERIOD, WITH GILDED DETAILS
Condition: Very Good; the front title page is pasted down; owner’s signature.
