Name: Love at First Sight
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Author: Wislawa Szymborska
ISBN: 9781644212233

Type

Physical Book

Author

Wislawa Szymborska

Illustrated by

Beatrice Gasca Queirazza

Publisher

Seven Stories Press

Year

2022

Language

English

Pages

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

29.7 x 21.1 x 1.0 cm

Weight

0.45 kg.

ISBN13

9781644212233

Synopsis "Love at First Sight"

A poem by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, illustrated for readers of all ages that will challenge assumptions about falling in love. They're both convinced / that a sudden passion joined them.Such certainty is beautiful, / but uncertainty is more beautiful still. Love at First Sight is a poem about love and chance and destiny by the 1996 Polish winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Illustrated by Italian artist Beatrice Gasca Queirazza, Szymborska's poem comes to life in entirely new ways for her readers and for lovers everywhere in this oversized book perfect for gift giving. Szymborska tells of two young lovers bound together in an instant--or were they? As the poem unfolds, the reader's assumptions--like those of the lovers themselves--about certainty and destiny are utterly upended, revealing the paradox and mystery of fate. Here is randomness, tricks of memory, and chance, where noticing the smallest details of our intertwined lives is more essential than asking, Are we meant for each other? "Every beginning / is only a sequel, after all..."

Wislawa Szymborska

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(1923-2012). Wislawa empezó su carrera dentro del régimen socialista polaco y después se convirtió en su opositora, saltó a la fama mundial en la década de 1990. A pesar de la breve extensión de su obra, ha sido reconocida como una de las voces más intensas y claras de la literatura universal y contemporánea, y se ha hecho acreedora de los premios Goethe (1991), Herder (1995) y Nobel de literatura (1996).

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