[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"doc-seo-570304-105":3,"doc-detail-570304-en":80,"detail-sidebar-cat-0-en-105":97},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":6},0,"ok",{"site_id":7,"language":8,"slug":9,"title":10,"keywords":11,"description":12,"schema_data":13,"social_meta":73,"head_meta":75,"extra_data":77,"updated_unix":79},105,"en","the-memoir-of-an-anti-hero","The Memoir of an Anti-Hero","","The Memoir of an Anti-Hero presents Kornel Filipowicz’s account of confronting war and captivity, shaped by frank observation and moral discomfort. The text introduces his Polish background and literary standing, recounts wartime arrest in Gross-Rosen and Sachsenhausen, and frames his correspondence with Wisława Szymborska. It then narrates the outbreak of invasion, the narrator’s decision to stay, and encounters with prisoners, German troops, and a devastating episode involving a local teacher’s last-stand resistance.",{"@graph":14,"@context":72},[15,34,55],{"@type":16,"itemListElement":17},"BreadcrumbList",[18,23,27,31],{"item":19,"name":20,"@type":21,"position":22},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",1,{"item":24,"name":25,"@type":21,"position":26},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/","Document",2,{"item":28,"name":29,"@type":21,"position":30},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/literature/","Literature",3,{"item":32,"name":10,"@type":21,"position":33},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/the-memoir-of-an-anti-hero/570304/",4,{"url":32,"name":10,"@type":35,"image":36,"author":41,"headline":10,"publisher":44,"fileFormat":47,"inLanguage":8,"description":12,"dateModified":48,"datePublished":49,"encodingFormat":47,"isAccessibleForFree":50,"interactionStatistic":51},"DigitalDocument",{"url":37,"@type":38,"width":39,"height":40},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/the-memoir-of-an-anti-hero/570304.png","ImageObject",300,407,{"name":42,"@type":43},"Indoniesian Boy","Person",{"url":19,"name":45,"@type":46},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-10-22","2026-10-13",true,{"@type":52,"interactionType":53,"userInteractionCount":30},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":54},"ViewAction",{"@type":56,"mainEntity":57},"FAQPage",[58,64,68],{"name":59,"@type":60,"acceptedAnswer":61},"Who is Kornel Filipowicz in the text?","Question",{"text":62,"@type":63},"Kornel Filipowicz is presented as a Polish novelist, poet, and screen-writer who studied biology and lived in Krakow for much of his life.","Answer",{"name":65,"@type":60,"acceptedAnswer":66},"What wartime events are mentioned?",{"text":67,"@type":63},"The text states that during the war he was arrested and imprisoned in the Gross-Rosen and Sachsenhausen concentration camps.",{"name":69,"@type":60,"acceptedAnswer":70},"What happens in the described resistance episode involving the teacher?",{"text":71,"@type":63},"A local teacher hides in the school attic with a machine gun, waits for the Germans to arrive, and fires until her ammunition is used up, killing only two Germans before she is taken away.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":32,"og:type":74,"og:title":10,"og:site_name":45,"og:description":12},"article",{"robots":76,"canonical":32},"index,follow",{"doc_id":78,"site_id":7},570304,1792501687,{"code":4,"msg":81,"data":82},"success",{"doc_id":78,"user_id":83,"nickname":42,"user_avatar":84,"doc_module":4,"category_id":26,"category_name":29,"doc_title":10,"doc_description":12,"doc_content":85,"file_id":86,"file_url":87,"file_type":88,"file_size":89,"view_count":30,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":22,"is_downloadable":22,"audit_status":22,"page_count":90,"language":91,"language_code":8,"site_id":7,"html_lang":8,"table_of_contents":92,"faqs":93,"seo_title":94,"seo_description":12,"update_tm":95,"read_time":96},962090760608,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_276721f389ce27ea32af1340a28f341c","# 'Provocative,troubling,awkward...a proper classic'\n\nSunday Times  \nKornelFilipowicz  \n# The Memoirofan Anti-Hero\n\nThe Memoir ofan Anti-Hero  \nKornel Filipowicz(1913-I990)was a Polish novelist,poet and screen-writer.He studied biology in Krakow and lived in that city for mostof his life.His first book of poetry,an edition of ten copies,came outin I943 and established him as a leading figure in the Polish avant-garde.During the war he was arrested and imprisoned in the Gross-Rosen and Sachsenhausen concentration camps.In later years hebecame a close friend of the poet and Nobel -Laureate WislawaSzymborska,with whomhe exchanged thousands ofletters.The firstof these he sent in April 1966,enclosing photographs of monkeysfrom Krakow Zoo.  \nAnna Zaranko is a translator from the Polish,Russian and FrenchShe lives inJesmond Vale.  \nKORNEL FILIPOWICZ  \nThe Memoir ofan Anti-Hero  \nTranslated by Anna Zaranko  \nUK|USA |Canada |Ireland |AustraliaIndia|New Zealand|South Afrlca  \nPenguin  \n## Random HouseUK\n\nCopyright o the Estate of Kornel Fllipowicz,1961Translation copyright OAnna Zaranko,2019  \nThe moral right of the translator has been asserted  \nSet in 11/13.7 pt by SabonPrinted and bound in Great Britain by Clays Ltd,Elcograf S.p.A.  \n1SBN:978-0-241-35160-4  \nwww.greenpenguincouk  \nPenguin Books is part of the Penguin Random House group of companies whoseaddresses can be found at global.penguinrandomhouse.com  \nFirst publishedin Polish under the title Pamietnik Antybohatera by Czytelnik 1961This translation first published in Penguin Classics 2019This edition published 2020001  \nA CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library  \nPenguin Random House is committed to asustainable future for our business,our readersand our planet.This book is made from ForestStewardship Council\"certihed paper.  \nAlthough human life is priceless,we always act asthough something had an even greater price thanlife...but what is that something?  \nAntoine de Saint-Exupéry  \nDigitized by the Internet Archivein 2022 with funding fromKahle/Austin Foundation  \nhttps://archive.org/details/memoirofantihero000Ofili  \n\"The outbreak of war found me in X,a beautiful place inthe foothills where I had spent my holidays the last threeyears in a row.  \nBy the end of August,almost all the summer holiday-makers had packed their bags and left on the crowded andnow late-running trains.I'd been to the station twice andI'd seen the goings-on.I told myself that what the maj-ority did was not necessarily what one ought to do-andI stayed.  \nSo,on 5 or 6 September (I had a room in the garretof a wooden house with a little balcony,near the road),after an hour's gunfire -which,on the advice of thelandlord,I'd spent in the cellar -I saw the Germans.Their equipment,discipline,briskness,bearing -theywere astonishing;this was something more than a vic-torious army.The Poles,whom I was seeing now asprisoners -were something less than vanquished;theywere destroyed.Annihilated.I want to be frank in whatI write,and I have to say they did not stir even my pity.Idon't consider myself completely incapable of that sent-iment.But they were simply...disgusting.Disgusting,threadbare,dirty and brutish.Animals in rags.A slightlyrisky comparison,but nothing better comes to mind.I'dbeen in the army once,but I had no idea that the same  \nuniform-boots,weapons and kit -could so easily losetheir look and meaning.  \nThe day after the Germans invaded,there was an inci-dent in one of the neighbouring villages,not yet occupiedat that point:a local teacher(I saw her soon after and I'lldescribe her in just a moment)hid in the attic of her schooland waited there several hours for the Germans to arrive;she knew they were approaching from the Secretary of theDistrict Council who had a telephone.So there she was,waiting in the attic and looking out of the window witha machine gun by her side.It was,as people recountedlater,an RKM Browning,recently introduced into thePolish army-light,with t","cbCaid1xc6aIyTlK","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaid1xc6aIyTlK","pdf",3758207,84,"English","# The Memoir of an Anti-Hero\n## Kornel Filipowicz: background and wartime experience\n## Letters and translation context\n## War’s outbreak and the narrator’s decision to stay\n## First observations of German forces\n## A local teacher’s resistance episode","[{\"question\":\"Who is Kornel Filipowicz in the text?\",\"answer\":\"Kornel Filipowicz is presented as a Polish novelist, poet, and screen-writer who studied biology and lived in Krakow for much of his life.\"},{\"question\":\"What wartime events are mentioned?\",\"answer\":\"The text states that during the war he was arrested and imprisoned in the Gross-Rosen and Sachsenhausen concentration camps.\"},{\"question\":\"What happens in the described resistance episode involving the teacher?\",\"answer\":\"A local teacher hides in the school attic with a machine gun, waits for the Germans to arrive, and fires until her ammunition is used up, killing only two Germans before she is taken away.\"}]","The Memoir of an Anti-Hero | PDF",1791880352,129,{"code":4,"msg":81,"data":98},[99,103,106,110,115,120,125,130,135,138,142],{"id":22,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":100,"show_sort_weight":101,"slug":102},"Story & Novel",90,"story-novel",{"id":26,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":29,"show_sort_weight":104,"slug":105},80,"literature",{"id":33,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":107,"show_sort_weight":108,"slug":109},"Exam",70,"exam",{"id":111,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":112,"show_sort_weight":113,"slug":114},5,"Comic",60,"comic",{"id":116,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":117,"show_sort_weight":118,"slug":119},6,"Technology",50,"technology",{"id":121,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":122,"show_sort_weight":123,"slug":124},7,"Healthcare",40,"healthcare",{"id":126,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":127,"show_sort_weight":128,"slug":129},8,"Research & Report",30,"research-report",{"id":131,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":132,"show_sort_weight":133,"slug":134},9,"Religion & Spirituality",20,"religion-spirituality",{"id":133,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":136,"show_sort_weight":133,"slug":137},"World Cup","world-cup",{"id":139,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":140,"show_sort_weight":139,"slug":141},10,"Lifestyle","lifestyle",{"id":143,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":144,"show_sort_weight":111,"slug":145},19,"General","general"]