{"id":8735,"date":"2023-06-26T15:12:59","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T13:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/?p=8735"},"modified":"2023-07-20T17:22:34","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T15:22:34","slug":"henryk-sienkiewicz-with-stanley-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2023\/06\/26\/henryk-sienkiewicz-with-stanley-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Henryk Sienkiewicz with Stanley Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>S3E6 and all video recordings are available at:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/6D5sEJJpTEk\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Encounters with Polish Literature<\/strong>&nbsp;is a video series for anyone interested in literature and the culture of books and reading. Each month, host&nbsp;<strong>David A. Goldfarb<\/strong>&nbsp;will present a new topic in conversation with an expert on that author or book or movement in Polish literature.&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/encounters-with-polish-literature\">More about the Encounters with Polish Literature series<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;and the timeline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Novelist and journalist&nbsp;<strong>Henryk Sienkiewicz<\/strong>&nbsp;(1846-1917) became Poland\u2019s first Nobel Prize winner for literature in 1905. He spent time in the United States, recounted in his&nbsp;<em>Letters from America<\/em>, in part living on a communal farm with a group of utopians who included the great actress, Helena Modrzejewska (\u201cModjeska\u201d in the U.S.). His most well-known work in his own time was the historical novel,&nbsp;<em>Quo Vadis?<\/em>&nbsp;(1896) describing the persecution of early Christians in Nero\u2019s Rome and turned into a very successful Hollywood film in 1951.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this episode, we look at&nbsp;<em>With Fire and Sword<\/em>, the first novel in Sienkiewicz\u2019s historical&nbsp;<em>Trilogy<\/em>, recounting Poland\u2019s conflicts with the Cossacks, the Swedes, and with the Ottoman Empire during the seventeenth century.&nbsp;<em>With Fire and Sword<\/em>&nbsp;brings us to a difficult time in Poland\u2019s relations with the lands that are today Ukraine, during Khmelnytsky\u2019s peasant uprising in 1648 against Polish landowners and their Jewish agents. We ask how the relationship between Poles and the people who lived East of the Dnieper compares to colonialism in countries like England, Belgium, Germany, and France, and how Ruthenians and Cossacks are represented in Sienkiewicz\u2019s novel. We try to gain some insight into what this history meant in the seventeenth century when it happened, in the nineteenth century when the novel was written, and how we can read it today as Ukraine fights for its existence at a time of great solidarity between Poland and Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sienkiewicz was widely translated in his own day, into English primarily by Jerimiah Curtin who was also an expert in Irish folklore and Native American languages and ethnography, and those translations are in the public domain, available freely from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/author\/1052?sort_order=downloads\"><strong>Project Gutenberg<\/strong><\/a> and through other e-book sources such as iBooks.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/06\/Bill_Stan-2-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8736\" width=\"345\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/06\/Bill_Stan-2-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/06\/Bill_Stan-2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/06\/Bill_Stan-2-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/06\/Bill_Stan-2-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/06\/Bill_Stan-2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 345px) 100vw, 345px\" \/><figcaption>Stanley Bill<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Stanley Bill<\/strong>&nbsp;is Associate Professor in Polish Studies and Director of Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge. He works on twentieth-century Polish literature and culture, and on contemporary political discourse in Poland.&nbsp;He is the author of&nbsp;<em>Czes\u0142aw Mi\u0142osz&#8217;s Faith in the Flesh: Body, Belief, and Human Identity<\/em>&nbsp;(Oxford University Press, 2021) and co-editor of&nbsp;<em>The Routledge World Companion to Polish Literature<\/em>&nbsp;(2021).&nbsp;He has published translations of Mi\u0142osz&#8217;s novel&nbsp;<em>The Mountains of Parnassus<\/em>&nbsp;(Yale University Press, 2017) and a selection of short stories by Bruno Schulz entitled&nbsp;<em>Nocturnal Apparitions<\/em>&nbsp;(London, 2022). He is founder and editor-at-large of the news and opinion website Notes from Poland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Lead image: Henryk Sienkiewicz by Kazimierz Pochwalski, 1890.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Bartek Remisko, Executive Producer<\/em><br><em>David A. 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We try to gain some insight into what this history meant in the seventeenth century when it happened, in the nineteenth century when the novel was written, and how we can read it today as Ukraine fights for its existence at a time of great solidarity between Poland and Ukraine.\nSienkiewicz was widely translated in his own day, into English primarily by Jerimiah Curtin who was also an expert in Irish folklore and Native American languages and ethnography, and those translations are in the public domain, available freely from Project Gutenberg and through other e-book sources such as iBooks.\nStanley Bill is Associate Professor in Polish Studies and Director of Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge. He works on twentieth-century Polish literature and culture, and on contemporary political discourse in Poland. 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