by Władysław Szpilman · Phoenix Paperbacks · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780753814055
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«The Pianist» is the autobiographical account by Władysław Szpilman, published by Phoenix Paperbacks in paperback (224 pages, in English).
Szpilman, a Polish Jewish pianist, narrates in the first person how he lived through the German occupation of Warsaw: the confinement in the ghetto, the escape, the hiding place and the struggle to stay alive while everything around him was falling apart. A testimony about the war and the Holocaust written from the closeness of someone who survives by chance and with the help of other people.
Work originally published as «Śmierć miasta» in 1946. The work was awarded the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize; this English edition is from 2002.
For readers of historical memoirs and accounts of the Second World War, and for those seeking the book on which Roman Polanski's movie is based.
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.
