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Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian 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 and Ukrainian Literature series<\/a><\/strong> and the timeline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Juliusz S\u0142owacki<\/strong> (1809-49) is the second of the so-called Polish Romantic bards between Adam Mickiewicz and Zygmunt Krasi\u0144ski, though Krasi\u0144ski was later overshadowed by the late Romantic poet, Cyprian Kamil Norwid. He was born to a literary and academic family in Kremenets, Volhynia, which is part of modern-day Ukraine. He studied law and worked in the finance ministry in Wilno before spending much of his productive life abroad in France and Switzerland, supporting himself with income from his mother, Salomea\u2019s Ukrainian estates and his own investments of those funds. Unlike Mickiewicz, who was very active politically, S\u0142owacki was able to concentrate entirely on his poetry and other literary output for most of his life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is perhaps best known for his Byronic and patriotic drama, \u201cKordian,\u201d published in 1834, in part responding to Mickiewicz\u2019s Forefathers\u2019 Eve,<\/em> Part III. Kordian, the hero, travels around Europe trying to gather support for opposition to Russian imperialism and becomes involved in a plot to kill Tsar Nicholas I. In light of its anti-Russian content and the general tendency of Romantic drama to be written more for the page than the stage, the work was not performed until fifty years after the poet\u2019s death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His drama, \u201cBalladyna,\u201d written in 1834, is perhaps one of the most performed works on the Polish stage. It is set in the mythic past and is rich in Shakespearean references. Balladyna is a cruel woman-warrior who spins a web of murder and torture, taking in her own sister and mother, to face her own judgment at the end of the play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

S\u0142owacki\u2019s enigmatic later mystical works, \u201cGenesis from the Spirit\u201d and \u201cKing-Spirit\u201d or \u201cKr\u00f3l-Duch\u201d explore the evolution of matter from spirit, similar to the concept of Geist<\/em> in German Romantic philosophy, and of the evolution and intervention of spirit over time in Polish history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this episode we pick up from season 4, episode 1 of \u201cEncounters\u201d on the Ukrainian School in Polish Romanticism and focus on works that reflect on the Ukrainian lands and culture of S\u0142owacki\u2019s youth. These begin with \u201cWac\u0142aw,\u201d which continues a theme from Malczewski\u2019s \u201cMaria,\u201d and the poem that first brought him fame, \u201cBeniowski,\u201d which ends with his metaphorical duel with Mickiewicz. We end with \u201cThe Silver Dream of Salomea\u201d (1843), which might be seen as a final assessment of the dream of Polish Ukrainian unity and S\u0142owacki\u2019s liberation of himself from his mother, Salomea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

S\u0142owacki is not widely translated into English and is ripe for new translations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Juliusz S\u0142owacki in English Translation and other resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anna Nasi\u0142owska. A History of Polish Literature<\/a><\/em>. Tr. Anna Zaranko. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2024. Pgs. 213-36.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Juliusz S\u0142owacki. Four Plays: Mary Stuart, Kordian, Balladyna, Horszty\u0144ski<\/a><\/em>. Tr. Charles S. Kraszewski. London: Glagoslav Publications, 2018. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Harold B. Segel.\u00a0Polish Romantic Drama\u00a0Three Plays in English Translation<\/a>.<\/em>\u00a0London: Routledge, 1997. (Originally from Cornell University Press, available used). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Juliusz\u00a0S\u0142owacki:\u00a0Balladina<\/em>. In\u00a0Poland\u2019s Angry Romantic: Two Poems and a Play by Juliusz\u00a0S\u0142owacki<\/a><\/em>, edited and translated by Peter Cochran, Bill Johnston, Miros\u0142awa Modrzewska and Catherine O\u2019Neil. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2009. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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George G. Grabowicz <\/strong>is the Dmytro \u010cy\u017eevs\u2019kyj Research Professor of Ukrainian Literature in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. He received his B.A. from Yale University (1965) and his PhD in comparative literature from Harvard (1975), where he was also Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows (1971-1974). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor Grabowicz has been Chairman of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard (1983-1988) and Director of Harvard’s Ukrainian Research Institute (1989-1996).  He was one of the founders and President (1991-1993) of the International Association for Ukrainian Studies and Chairman of the American Committee of Slavists (1983-1988).   From 2012 to 2018 he was President of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the US and is currently a Vice-President there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1997 he founded and since then has been editor-in-chief of the Ukrainian monthly Krytyka<\/em>, a leading intellectual journal in Ukraine.  Since 2000 the publishing house of Krytyka<\/em> has produced some one hundred and fifty books, particularly academic books in the humanities, many of them published jointly with Harvard\u2019s Ukrainian Research Institute, the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the US and the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor Grabowicz has written on Ukrainian, Polish and Russian literature and on literary theory.  His first book on Shevchenko (The Poet as Mythmaker<\/em>, 1982; Ukrainian editions: 1991 and 1997) has been voted the most influential academic book of the post-Soviet period in Ukraine.  His most recent publication is the two volume \u0422\u0430\u0440\u0430\u0441 \u0428\u0435\u0432\u0447\u0435\u043d\u043a\u043e \u0432 \u043a\u0440\u0438\u0442\u0438\u0446\u0456<\/em> [Taras Shevchenko: The Critical Reception<\/em>], Kyiv, Krytyka, 2013 and 2016.  He currently heads an international team of scholars working on a history of Ukrainian literature that is due to appear in 2023.  A full bibliography of his writings (up to 2015) is available online<\/a>. In March, 2022 he was awarded the Shevchenko Prize, Ukraine\u2019s highest award in the humanities and arts, for his series of articles on modernism and the poet Pavlo Tychyna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Each month, host David A. Goldfarb 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 and Ukrainian Literature series and the timeline.\nJuliusz S\u0142owacki (1809-49) is the second of the so-called Polish Romantic bards between Adam Mickiewicz and Zygmunt Krasi\u0144ski, though Krasi\u0144ski was later overshadowed by the late Romantic poet, Cyprian Kamil Norwid. He was born to a literary and academic family in Kremenets, Volhynia, which is part of modern-day Ukraine. He studied law and worked in the finance ministry in Wilno before spending much of his productive life abroad in France and Switzerland, supporting himself with income from his mother, Salomea\u2019s Ukrainian estates and his own investments of those funds. Unlike Mickiewicz, who was very active politically, S\u0142owacki was able to concentrate entirely on his poetry and other literary output for most of his life.\nHe is perhaps best known for his Byronic and patriotic drama, \u201cKordian,\u201d published in 1834, in part responding to Mickiewicz\u2019s Forefathers\u2019 Eve, Part III. Kordian, the hero, travels around Europe trying to gather support for opposition to Russian imperialism and becomes involved in a plot to kill Tsar Nicholas I. In light of its anti-Russian content and the general tendency of Romantic drama to be written more for the page than the stage, the work was not performed until fifty years after the poet\u2019s death.\nHis drama, \u201cBalladyna,\u201d written in 1834, is perhaps one of the most performed works on the Polish stage. It is set in the mythic past and is rich in Shakespearean references. Balladyna is a cruel woman-warrior who spins a web of murder and torture, taking in her own sister and mother, to face her own judgment at the end of the play.\nS\u0142owacki\u2019s enigmatic later mystical works, \u201cGenesis from the Spirit\u201d and \u201cKing-Spirit\u201d or \u201cKr\u00f3l-Duch\u201d explore the evolution of matter from spirit, similar to the concept of Geist in German Romantic philosophy, and of the evolution and intervention of spirit over time in Polish history.\nIn this episode we pick up from season 4, episode 1 of \u201cEncounters\u201d on the Ukrainian School in Polish Romanticism and focus on works that reflect on the Ukrainian lands and culture of S\u0142owacki\u2019s youth. These begin with \u201cWac\u0142aw,\u201d which continues a theme from Malczewski\u2019s \u201cMaria,\u201d and the poem that first brought him fame, \u201cBeniowski,\u201d which ends with his metaphorical duel with Mickiewicz. We end with \u201cThe Silver Dream of Salomea\u201d (1843), which might be seen as a final assessment of the dream of Polish Ukrainian unity and S\u0142owacki\u2019s liberation of himself from his mother, Salomea.\nS\u0142owacki is not widely translated into English and is ripe for new translations.\nJuliusz S\u0142owacki in English Translation and other resources:\nAnna Nasi\u0142owska. A History of Polish Literature. Tr. Anna Zaranko. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2024. Pgs. 213-36.\nJuliusz S\u0142owacki. Four Plays: Mary Stuart, Kordian, Balladyna, Horszty\u0144ski. Tr. Charles S. Kraszewski. London: Glagoslav Publications, 2018. \nHarold B. Segel.\u00a0Polish Romantic Drama\u00a0Three Plays in English Translation.\u00a0London: Routledge, 1997. (Originally from Cornell University Press, available used). \nJuliusz\u00a0S\u0142owacki:\u00a0Balladina. In\u00a0Poland\u2019s Angry Romantic: Two Poems and a Play by Juliusz\u00a0S\u0142owacki, edited and translated by Peter Cochran, Bill Johnston, Miros\u0142awa Modrzewska and Catherine O\u2019Neil. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2009. \nGeorge G. Grabowicz is the Dmytro \u010cy\u017eevs\u2019kyj Research Professor of Ukrainian Literature in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. He received his B.A. from Yale University (1965) and his PhD in comparative literature from Harvard (1975), where he was also Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows (1971-1974). \nProfessor Grabowicz has been Chairman of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard (1983-1988) and Director of Harvard's Ukrainian Research Institute (1989-1996). He was one of the founders and President (1991-1993) of the International Association for Ukrainian Studies and Chairman of the American Committee of Slavists (1983-1988). From 2012 to 2018 he was President of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the US and is currently a Vice-President there. \nIn 1997 he founded and since then has been editor-in-chief of the Ukrainian monthly Krytyka, a leading intellectual journal in Ukraine. Since 2000 the publishing house of Krytyka has produced some one hundred and fifty books, particularly academic books in the humanities, many of them published jointly with Harvard\u2019s Ukrainian Research Institute, the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the US and the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the US.\nProfessor Grabowicz has written on Ukrainian, Polish and Russian literature and on literary theory. His first book on Shevchenko (The Poet as Mythmaker, 1982; Ukrainian editions: 1991 and 1997) has been voted the most influential academic book of the post-Soviet period in Ukraine. His most recent publication is the two volume \u0422\u0430\u0440\u0430\u0441 \u0428\u0435\u0432\u0447\u0435\u043d\u043a\u043e \u0432 \u043a\u0440\u0438\u0442\u0438\u0446\u0456 [Taras Shevchenko: The Critical Reception], Kyiv, Krytyka, 2013 and 2016. He currently heads an international team of scholars working on a history of Ukrainian literature that is due to appear in 2023. A full bibliography of his writings (up to 2015) is available online. In March, 2022 he was awarded the Shevchenko Prize, Ukraine\u2019s highest award in the humanities and arts, for his series of articles on modernism and the poet Pavlo Tychyna.\nDavid A. 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