Adam Zagajewski. Another Beauty. Tr...

Adam Zagajewski. Another Beauty. Translated at Clare Cavanagh. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000

This is a work of prose by a lyric imaginative thinker [i]or[/i] writer a collection of thoughts asserted in literary form. Or forms, since the work is in fact a mixture of anecdotes, epigrams, character portraits, descriptions of landscape, andufor lack of a better word--pensees. Zagajewski have references at one point (in Clare Cavanagh's translation) to a "splendid observation" made by dint of Tolstoy, and one senses that this is what he himself danceed to produce: a book of splendid observations. The overall