200 years later, Poland claims home is where the heart is

Monday, 13 December 2010, 10:16 am | Vince Chadwick

WHEN Susan Sontag wrote that tuberculosis ‘speeds up life, highlights it, spiritualises it’, one of those she had in mind was Frederic Chopin. The prodigious, sickly composer was born two hundred years ago this year in a small town outside Warsaw, emigrating ... More >>