{"id":11218,"date":"2024-04-08T16:43:21","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T14:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/?p=11218"},"modified":"2024-06-12T17:58:31","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T15:58:31","slug":"the-short-story-in-a-polish-context-classic-short-fiction-from-the-seventeenth-to-twentieth-centuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2024\/04\/08\/the-short-story-in-a-polish-context-classic-short-fiction-from-the-seventeenth-to-twentieth-centuries\/","title":{"rendered":"The Short Story in a Polish Context: Classic Short Fiction from the Seventeenth to Twentieth Centuries edited and with Commentary by Oscar E. 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Swan <br>Published by PIASA Books, an imprint of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>An anthology that shows how the short-fiction genre evolved in Poland; The Short Story in a Polish Context contains selections belonging to the Polish short-story canon throughout the ages. A variety of Poland\u2019s greatest and best-known authors and interesting themes have been chosen. Several of the stories appear here in English for the first time in Oscar Swan\u2019s masterful translations; others have been translated by other well-known literary translators of Polish. Prof. Swan\u2019s commentaries on the stories give the reader historical context as well as providing insight into linguistic and cultural aspects that might otherwise elude the non-Polish-speaking reader. 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