About this Event
Polish literature in translation and in the original: multilingual Polish book club
We will read one Polish novel each month, in the original Polish or in translation into other languages. Discussion will take place in English and will be preceded by a brief introduction to each text.
All are welcome, join us for one meeting or as many as you can!
Books available from libraries and bookshops, as well as online at wolnelektury.pl (for public domain originals). This book club takes place fully online.
Mikołaj Grynberg, Rejwach (2017)Available in Polish and English (I’d Like to Say Sorry, but There’s No One to Say Sorry To, trans. Sean Bye).
An exquisitely original collection of darkly funny stories that explore the panorama of Jewish experience in contemporary Poland, from a world-class contemporary writer.
Mikołaj Grynberg is a psychologist and photographer who has spent years collecting and publishing oral histories of Polish Jews. In his first work of fiction—a book that has been widely praised by critics and was shortlisted for Poland’s top literary prize—Grynberg recrafts those histories into little jewels, fictionalized short stories with the ring of truth.
Both biting and knowing, I’d Like to Say Sorry, but There’s No One to Say Sorry To takes the form of first-person vignettes, through which Grynberg explores the daily lives and tensions within Poland between Jews and gentiles haunted by the Holocaust and its continuing presence.
Each of the thirty-one stories is a dazzling and haunting mini-monologue that highlights a different facet of modern Poland’s complex and difficult relationship with its Jewish past.
(Publisher's description)
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation, 36 Fenian Street, Dublin, Ireland
EUR 0.00 to EUR 1000.00