Henry David Thoreau – Grasping the Community of the World - recenzja

Abstract

A handsome and well-designed book, Tadeusz Sławek's study of Thoreau's Journal is a translation of his Polish book "Ujmować. Henry David Thoreau i wspólnota świata", published five years earlier by the University of Silesia Press in Katowice. It is a faithful English rendering of the collection of more than 700 fragments or aphorisms aimed at illuminating select aspects of the thinking of the American transcendentalist writer whose prose has largely been unknown to the Polish reader apart from his major work Walden, or Life in the Woods, and a collection of essays such as Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle or Cape Cod [...]. Recenzja: Henry David Thoreau - grasping the community of the world / Tadeusz Sławek ; translated by Jean Ward. - Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang Edition, cop. 2014. - 316 s. ; 22 cm.