Still Life with a Bridle: Essays and Apocryphas

In “Still Life with a Bridle,” poet and essayist Zbigniew Herbert takes an intriguing look at the cultural, artisitic, and aesthetic legacy of 17th-century Holland. These sixteen essays reveal Hervert’s discriminating artistic eye and poetic sensibility, one that revels in irony, humor, and a satirist’s appreciation of the absurd. An inveterate museum-goer, he focuses on the art of the Dutch masters, using it as a stepping-off point for a thoroughly individual and entertaining examination of the foibles, genius, and character of the Dutch people as a whole. The result is an unorthodox and revealing glimpse into the past that gives us a keener understanding not only of a distant people, but of ourselves as well.

Author: Zbigniew Herbert
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 04/01/1993
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 8.28h x 5.54w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9780880013208
Language: English