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Encounters with Polish Literature<\/strong> is a video series for anyone interested in literature and the culture of books and reading. Each month, host David A. Goldfarb<\/strong> will present a new topic in conversation with an expert on that author or book or movement in Polish literature. More about the Encounters with Polish Literature series<\/a><\/strong> and the timeline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In honor of the centennial of the birth of poet and essayist, Zbigniew Herbert (Oct. 29, 1924 \u2013 July 28, 1998), the Polish Sejm (parliament) has proclaimed 2024 the Year of Zbigniew Herbert. Born in Lw\u00f3w (today Lviv, Ukraine), like Stanis\u0142aw Lem, Adam Zagajewski, and \u017banna S\u0142oniowska, whom we have discussed on \u201cEncounters with Polish Literature,\u201d Herbert studied economics and philosophy and joined the resistance during the Second World War. Herbert for the most part sat out the era of socialist realism in Poland and made his major debut in 1956 with the collection String of Light<\/em>. He is best known for his works that reflect on the politics of the twentieth century from a historical, aesthetic, or philosophical distance, cast in the interior monologues of his alter-ego, \u201cMr. Cogito,\u201d as a Dutch chronicler in \u201cReport from the Besieged City,\u201d or as a traveler reporting on European art and architecture in his essays collected in Still Life with a Bridle<\/em> and Barbarian in the Garden<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this episode, we discuss these aspects of Herbert\u2019s life and work and attempt to illuminate the poet\u2019s particular posture of epiphany in spite of the horrors of history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Zbigniew Herbert in English Translation:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barbarian in the Garden<\/a><\/em>. Tr. Michael March and Jaros\u0142aw Anders. New York: Harvest Books, 1986. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Collected Poems: 1956-1998<\/em><\/a>.Tr. and ed. by Alissa Valles, with Additional Translations by Czeslaw Milosz and Peter Dale Scott. Intro. by Adam Zagajewski. New York: ecco, 2008. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Collected Prose: 1948-1998<\/em><\/a>. Ed. and intro by Alissa Valles. Preface by Charles Simic. New York: ecco, 2010. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elegy for the Departure and Other Poems<\/a><\/em>. Tr. Barbara and John Carpenter. New York: ecco, 1999. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The King of the Ants<\/a><\/em>. Tr. John Carpenter. New York: HarperCollins, 1999. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Cogito<\/a><\/em>. Tr. Barbara and John Carpenter. New York: ecco, 1993. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reconstruction of the Poet: Uncollected Works of Zbigniew Herbert<\/a><\/em>. Tr. and ed. by Alissa Valles. New York: ecco, forthcoming Aug. 13, 2024. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Report from the Besieged City<\/a><\/em>. Tr. Barbara and John Carpenter. New York: ecco, 1985. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still Life with a Bridle: Essays and Apocryphas<\/a><\/em>. Tr. Barbara and John Carpenter. New York: ecco, 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bo\u017cena Shallcross<\/strong> is professor of Polish literature in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Core Faculty of the Institute on the Formation of Culture at the University of Chicago. She authored several monographs, edited, or translated volumes, and numerous articles. Her last monograph entitled The Holocaust Object in Polish and Polish-Jewish Culture<\/em> (2011) also appeared in Polish and Russian translations. Most recently she published \u201cAnamnesis of Joy\u201d in Fabrica<\/em> Litterarum <\/em>(2024);\u201cWar and Violence: How to Rescue a Wartime Artifact\u201d in The Cambridge Handbook of Material Culture Studies<\/em> (2022) and \u201cScandalous Glass House: On Modernist Transparency in Architecture and Life\u201d in Centering the Periphery: Polish Jewish Culture Beyond the Capital<\/em> (2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo: Bo\u017cena Shallcross<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Image courtesy of Bo\u017cena Shallcross<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lead image: Zbigniew Herbert ok.1973. Photo: Micha\u0142 Kapitaniak<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Preface by Charles Simic. New York: ecco, 2010. \nElegy for the Departure and Other Poems. Tr. Barbara and John Carpenter. New York: ecco, 1999. \nThe King of the Ants. Tr. John Carpenter. New York: HarperCollins, 1999. \nMr. Cogito. Tr. Barbara and John Carpenter. New York: ecco, 1993. \nReconstruction of the Poet: Uncollected Works of Zbigniew Herbert. Tr. and ed. by Alissa Valles. New York: ecco, forthcoming Aug. 13, 2024. \nReport from the Besieged City. Tr. Barbara and John Carpenter. New York: ecco, 1985. \nStill Life with a Bridle: Essays and Apocryphas. Tr. Barbara and John Carpenter. New York: ecco, 2020. \nBo\u017cena Shallcross is professor of Polish literature in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Core Faculty of the Institute on the Formation of Culture at the University of Chicago. She authored several monographs, edited, or translated volumes, and numerous articles. Her last monograph entitled The Holocaust Object in Polish and Polish-Jewish Culture (2011) also appeared in Polish and Russian translations. Most recently she published \u201cAnamnesis of Joy\u201d in Fabrica Litterarum (2024);\u201cWar and Violence: How to Rescue a Wartime Artifact\u201d in The Cambridge Handbook of Material Culture Studies (2022) and \u201cScandalous Glass House: On Modernist Transparency in Architecture and Life\u201d in Centering the Periphery: Polish Jewish Culture Beyond the Capital (2022).\nBartek Remisko, Executive Producer \nDavid A. Goldfarb, Host & Producer\nNatalia Iyudin, Producer \nPhoto: Bo\u017cena Shallcross\nImage courtesy of Bo\u017cena Shallcross\nLead image: Zbigniew Herbert ok.1973. 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