On 22-24 November, at the Gaudeamus book fair 2019, will launch the book “ The Pianist” whose author is the polish pianist and composer Władysław Szpliman. Translation by Luiza Săvescu.
On 23 September 1939, a young jewish pianist plays live on the radio in Warsaw-Nocturna in D minor by Chopin. Music stops abruptly, with the first explosions of the german bombs launched on Poland. That's how it starts the death of a city and the human tragedy that has marked two centuries already. After six years, music starts again: the same Nocturna, playing an out of tone piano, manages to save a man's life, which carries the burden of memory of others .
Originally published in Poland, in 1945, then banned by the communist authorities, the memories of the jewish pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman, documents of his miraculous survival in the Warsaw ghetto, remain one of the most shocking evocations of the Holocaust. In a traumatic microcosm, on which the spectrum of the concentration camp is uninterrupted, the pianist is kept alive, by a strange twist of destiny and the supreme irony, by a meloman german captain.
Based on this exceptional story about the Second World War, in the year 2002, Roman Polański made the film of the same name, winning three Oscars (scenario, director and best actor) and with Palmes d 'Or in Cannes.