by Wladyslaw Szpilman · Editorial Empúries · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497871877
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«El pianista del gueto de Varsovia» is the autobiography of Wladyslaw Szpilman, published by Editorial Empúries in paperback (304 pages, in Catalan).
Szpilman was a Jewish pianist whose career was cut short by the Nazi occupation of Warsaw in 1939. He recounts life in the ghetto, playing to support his family, the deportation of his loved ones to Treblinka, and his survival in hiding, thanks to the German officer Wilm Hosenfield. Written after the war, it is a testimony without victimhood or desire for revenge.
Butxaca collection from Grup 62. Work originally published in 1946 as «Śmierć miasta». Translation by Josep Marco and Jerzy Slawomirski.
For readers of historical memoirs and Holocaust testimonies, with special interest in the occupation of Warsaw.
Władysław Szpilman was a Polish Jewish pianist, classical composer and Holocaust survivor. Szpilman is widely known as the central figure in the Roman Polanski film The Pianist, which was based on his autobiographical account of how he survived the German occupation of Warsaw and the Warsaw Uprising.
