![]() It belongs to the stream of post- World War II memoir literature in which fiction had to give way to facts. The Pianist is an attempt at coping with the nightmare of the years under German occupation. It appeared on the best-seller lists of such newspapers as the Times (London), the Los Angeles Times, and the Guardian (London). One year later it was also published in England, Holland, Italy, Sweden, Japan, and the United States. The unabridged edition of the book, published in Germany in 1998, is entitled The Pianist. ![]() He described his war experience-the stay in the ghetto and the years spent in hiding in occupied Warsaw-in a book entitled The Death of a City, which had a censored edition in 1946. He worked as a pianist for Polish Radio, at the same time composing symphonic music and movie soundtracks. In 1933, after Hitler had gained power, Szpilman returned home to Warsaw. He studied in the Berlin Academy of Music. Wladyslaw Szpilman was a composer, a pianist, and an animator of cultural life. ![]() THE PIANIST: THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF ONE MAN'S SURVIVAL IN WARSAW, 1939-45 (Smierc miasta) ![]()
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