by Wladyslaw Szpilman · Presse Pocket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782266117067
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«Le Pianiste» is the autobiographical account by Wladyslaw Szpilman, published by Presse Pocket in paperback (320 pages, in French).
In September 1939, under the German bombing of Warsaw, national radio broadcasts Chopin's Nocturne in C-sharp minor, performed by Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jewish pianist. The book recounts his experience in the ghetto, the years in hiding, and the final help from German officer Wilm Hosenfeld.
Originally published as «Śmierć miasta» (1946); this edition, translated by Bernard Cohen, includes a preface by Andrzej Szpilman. It won the Grand Prix des lectrices de ELLE 2002.
For readers interested in Holocaust testimonies, World War II, and survival memoirs.
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.
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