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Author : Władysław Szpilman
Publisher : Picador
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Publication Date : 2000-9-2
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Pages : 225
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The last live broadcast on Polish Radio, on September 23, 1939, was Chopin's Nocturne in C# Minor, played
by a young pianist named Wladyslaw Szpilman, until his playing was interrupted by German shelling. It was
the same piece and the same pianist, when broadcasting resumed six years later. The Pianist is Szpilman's
account of the years inbetween, of the death and cruelty inflicted on the Jews of Warsaw and on Warsaw
itself, related with a dispassionate restraint borne of shock. Szpilman, now 88, has not looked at his
description since he wrote it in 1946 (the same time as Primo Levi's If This Is A Man?; it is too personally
painful. The rest of us have no such excuse. This admirably robust translation by Anthea Bell is the first in
the English language. There were 3,500,000 Jews in Poland before the Nazi occupation; after it there were
240,000. Wladyslaw Szpilman's extraordinary account of his own miraculous survival offers a voice across
the years for the faceless millions who lost their lives. --David Vincent