That should be "Ursula Phillips" with a double "l." Apologies to Ursula for the typo.
@ericjackson-nq4hpАй бұрын
What an absolute treasure! I'm reading _The Peasants_ presently. Anna Zaranko is a Rock Star! My hat is off to Penguin Random House actually spending the dough to present a new edition. An absolute treasure.
@andrewfox1960Ай бұрын
u guys rock! thank u.
@doreekaplan2589Ай бұрын
"Shakespeare or somebody like that"? Who do you see as "like" Shakespeare ?
@acajudi100Ай бұрын
Hola from Querétaro, acajudi100 KZbin My 82nd year. Readers are leaders worldwide,
@user-nj3ys5ix5iАй бұрын
Is there an English version for the novel ( career of Nicklon Dyzma)
@dgoldfarАй бұрын
Here's a better example than "herbata" that I saw in "Słownik Polsko-Polski" today. Every European language has some form of "pony," except Polish, which has "kucyk."
@alarmerads2 ай бұрын
Bodegård har översatt hennes poesi till svenska vilket inneburit fantastiska upplevelser för mig. Jag har allt som är översatt till svenska
@joannas42122 ай бұрын
beautiful
@AnnaMaledonPictureBookAuthor2 ай бұрын
That was wonderful and I have learned some new info even though I have watched probably all interviews and documents about her on KZbin. She did love that silver bird mechanism that was collecting a single cigarette from a compartment and she did say she would save it from a fire. I think it is quite an awesome item and I don't even smoke. I understand she was a very private person, I'm one myself, but I'm quite sad that I never got to meet her. I was born in Krakow and stayed there till I was about 5. We could have gone there in High School too, but of course she was not receiving school trips. She reminds me so so much of my granny, both were born in 1923 and both were small lively ladies who liked big, strong men. I love her poetry too, of course, she's my favourite poet and Im so lucky I can read her in original. Translating is not easy, I know as I do translate my own poems either from English to Polish or vice versa as I write in both. I think after recieveing the Noble Prize she hasn't written for 2 or 3 years, not longer than that, but that was still very long. Being around people drains me and she must have so busy in the first year. Her collages were fantastic. Michal Rusinek said from time to time she would lock herself in her flat for 2 weeks to do them in bulk. He also said she loved chicken wings from KFC. She was fabulous and I only wish she wrote more poems. In regards to her poem The Cat in an Empty Apartment I'm pretty sure she was too grief stricken to write it from her own perspective or perhaps as she was the one to feed the cat it just came naturally, I'm convinced she didn't write it on purpose as a poem about pet's grief. Even years later she read it still with a shaky voice, and then refused to read it at events altogether. Kornel Filipowicz meant so much to her, even though they didn't live together. They were both writers so this arrangement suited them, he was also living with his aging mother.
@dgoldfarАй бұрын
Thanks for your detailed thoughts!
@markshovchan31343 ай бұрын
Great talk! In fact Szymborska is also popular among readers and literature lovers in China. The most welcomed (translated) collection of her poems is 「万物静默如谜」, which is a translation of collection <Poems New and Collected>.
@AnnaMaledonPictureBookAuthor2 ай бұрын
That's wonderful! She did have a gift for writing universal poems that can be understood all over the world. And she is still relevant.
@shehad83 ай бұрын
Lovely introduction, moving poem
@ansk68503 ай бұрын
Thank you.
@dgoldfar4 ай бұрын
Check out Magdalena Kay's review of Aleksandra Kremer's book discussed in this episode, in the latest issue of _The Polish Review_, v. 69, no. 2 (2024), pgs. 133-35.
@andrewwrobel22554 ай бұрын
30:06 The document shown is NOT a "certificate of completion", and it does not say that Tyrmand "has written" a thriller novel, but that he "is writing" it (in Polish "pisze", not "napisal"). Dated 10 May 1954, the certificate also says it is to be produced at the People's Police HQ ("K...G... MO"), a sinister place that Tyrmand had been summoned to in February (as he writes in the Diary on 16 Feb and on 17 Feb). That scrap of paper must have been meant to protect him from more attention from the PP. 31:57 What? This is back to front. Tyrmand did NOT mean that "materially he was doing quite well, relatively". As he describes repeatedly, he barely manages to survive. When he says (Diary, 11 Jan) that his "is a life without comfort" but not "without luxury", he explains what this means: "My luxury is (...) that I am unemployed". He goes on to spell out in some detail what employment means under communism in those days. (Later the system softened, although its foundations remained unchanged until its fall.) Good programme, though. I am, btw, one of the Diary's translators.
@fragrancehsu76604 ай бұрын
Oh so beautifully Pani Aleksandra Kremer reads these verses.
@stanskrzeszewski93695 ай бұрын
Glad to be introduced to Maslowska; have now ordered some of her books
@serhiinik76465 ай бұрын
perfectly )) але , мовою краще)) But you need to convey to English ))
@rasheedknox21405 ай бұрын
Is their a resource for non translated Polish science fiction and fantasy? Like Lords of the ice garden
@eepberlin79705 ай бұрын
You’re doing a great job!
@ericjackson-nq4hp5 ай бұрын
This is such a treat.
@LivingTheBookofDisquiet6 ай бұрын
Super-interesting audio essay. Enjoyed this a great deal, digressions included 😊
@Sucharush316 ай бұрын
Bought the English translation of this book when I was in Krakow recently. Very much enjoying his eccentric style, although when i ask friends who grew up in Poland about it, they tend to shudder due to some shared traumatic memory of every Polish high schooler being forced to read this book at some point 😅
@obradlutovac36634 ай бұрын
I think it has something to do with the fact that the book is pretty hefty. Nevertheless, it's breathtakingly beautiful and I'd never call Reymont's style 'eccentric'.
@MrBolinni6 ай бұрын
Thanks for promoting ukrainian literature
@ptitselet16316 ай бұрын
The best) Oksana Zabuzhko
@annadubovyk62246 ай бұрын
Brilliant talk with prominent Ukrainian scholars, thank you Mr. Goldfarb!
@user-xu7xm2wn8u6 ай бұрын
I'm so proud of my Ukraine, Ukraine's army, Ukrainians who fight and will win. Thanks to Mrs Zabuzhko for that grate job she do on behalf of Ukraine.
@michaeltluongo6 ай бұрын
This has been fascinating to listen to
@dgoldfar6 ай бұрын
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@ericjackson-nq4hp6 ай бұрын
This channel is important to me. I plan to read every translated word of Tokarczuk that makes it to English. I am more than 10 hours into _The Books of Jacob_ and I am starting over from the prologue, again. The novel is extraordinary and I recognize that--it is humbling but a tremendous literary pleasure What a treat this episode turned out to be.
@stefanhalikowskismith29526 ай бұрын
this is Episode 21. DO you have an Episode on Cyprian Norwid?
@adamszlachetka44076 ай бұрын
Thank you for introducing me to this poet and for this discussion
@dgoldfar6 ай бұрын
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@dgoldfar6 ай бұрын
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@dgoldfar6 ай бұрын
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@dgoldfar6 ай бұрын
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@dgoldfar6 ай бұрын
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@dgoldfar6 ай бұрын
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@mr.wrongthink.13257 ай бұрын
Tokarczuk is not a historian. She made up stories that are anti-Polish. Stories were false, but the committee liked it. Shame! No wonder, they gave their "price" to the butcher Henry Kissinger, the "doctor" that invented lobotomy, "mother" Theresa the friend of poverty and not the poor. Shame.
@ericjackson-nq4hp6 ай бұрын
PTSD is written all over your post. I wish you well. Society is traumatizing, that's true. Good luck to you--
@lilianarado24977 ай бұрын
I’ve got the book and I actually am polish
@quetzaltpa44507 ай бұрын
I liked the video!..
@chriswillis70248 ай бұрын
very poignant passage
@scottprophit80918 ай бұрын
Three of my favorite novels....hard to get through the Polish names but once you get handle on the names and the characters archetypes its easy to follow.
@user-xy1uw6xi1o8 ай бұрын
The main financial backer of Czapski was Yolanda Wankowicz, the Marquise de Boisgelin. Yolanda was related to Czapski, Giedroyc,vand Melchior Wankowicz, her Wankowicz family also being from Minsk.
@swandiveable8 ай бұрын
wasn't Reymont from Radomsko (aka Nowa Radomsk), my family's town? i believe so.
@dgoldfar7 ай бұрын
He was born in Kobiele Wielkie, a village near Radomsko.
@user-uw4dl1zj2e8 ай бұрын
Great conversation! Thank you Irena, thank you David.
@maryguterson55088 ай бұрын
This was remarkable! Lee Grant made it so very palpable. The words of the poet nestled against a 97 (and a half) year-old Jewish woman defying age and conventions--how perfect this was! Thank you!
@jeannieelias95458 ай бұрын
Beautiful inspiring portrait of 2 remarkable women and a poem that will be forever etched in my soul.
@RhondaHayter9 ай бұрын
How beautiful...in every regard. And I'm signing up for pilate's now.