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Józef Czapski

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April 03, 1896

Died

January 12, 1993

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Józef Marian Franciszek Czapski (ang Joseph Czapski) (April 3, 1896 – January 12, 1993) was a Polish artist, author, and critic, as well as an officer of the Polish Army. As a painter, he is notable for his membership in the Kapist movement, which was heavily influenced by Cézanne. Following the Polish Defensive War, he was made a prisoner of war by the Soviets and was among the very few officers to survive the Katyn massacre of 1940. Following the Sikorski-Mayski Agreement, he was an official envoy of the Polish government searching for the missing Polish officers in Russia. After World War II, he remained in exile in the Paris suburb of Maisons-Laffitte, where he was among the founders of Kultura monthly, one of the most influential Polis ...more

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	Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp by Józef Czapski, Eric Karpeles (Translator) 4.07 avg rating — 815 ratings — published 1948 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Inhuman Land: Searching for the Truth in Soviet Russia, 1941-1942 by Józef Czapski, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator), Timothy Snyder (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.44 avg rating — 254 ratings — published 1949 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Memories of Starobielsk: Essays Between Art and History (New York Review Books Classics) by Józef Czapski, Alissa Valles (Translator), Irena Grudzińska Gross (Introduction) 3.59 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1944 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Patrząc by Józef Czapski, Joanna Pollakówna 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Czytając by Józef Czapski, Jan Zieliński (Introduction) 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1989 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tumult i widma 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1989 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Świat w moich oczach by Józef Czapski, Piotr Kłoczowski really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rozproszone by Józef Czapski, Paweł Kądziela (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wyrwane strony by Józef Czapski, Barbara Toruńczyk (Editor), Mikołaj Nowak-Rogoziński (Contributor) 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Swoboda tajemna by Józef Czapski, Andrzej Kaczyński (Editor) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1989	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The slow and painful transformation of a passionate and narrowly egotistical being into a man who gives himself over wholly to some great work or other that devours him, destroys him, lives in his blood, is a trial every creative being must endure.”
― Józef Czapski, Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp

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“The ensuing heartbreak produces the same result—a feeling of unreality, and the awareness that the pleasures of life and a final understanding of it exist in the act of creation, the sole true life and true reality.”
― Józef Czapski, Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp

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“Bergson insisted that life is continuous and our perception of it discontinuous. It follows that our intelligence is incapable of forming an adequate idea of life. It is not intelligence but intuition that provides us with an adequate idea of life. (Intuition in humans corresponds to instinct in animals.) Proust attempts to overcome the problem of the discontinuity of perception with involuntary memory, with the intuition of creating a new form and a new vision that can furnish us with an impression of life’s continuity.”
― Józef Czapski, Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp

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