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Gustaw Herling, as the name on the book says, or Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski was born in Poland in 1919 and died in 2000. In 1940 he was captured by the Russioans and spent two years in a Soviet labor camp. Volcane and Miracle is a collection of more than 100 journal entries from 1970 to 1993. Some of them hard for me to understand, especially when he writes about authors or artists unknown to me. Others, like when he writes about Venice, are like sucking a favorite candy.
A book I would never have read if not for this project.
A book which has broadened my mind.