{"id":9663,"date":"2023-12-04T16:22:37","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T15:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/?p=9663"},"modified":"2023-12-29T17:14:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T16:14:13","slug":"jozef-czapski-with-irena-grudzinska-gross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2023\/12\/04\/jozef-czapski-with-irena-grudzinska-gross\/","title":{"rendered":"J\u00f3zef Czapski with Irena Grudzi\u0144ska Gross"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>S3E12 and all video recordings are available on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MzkkQKb-l48&amp;list=PLKjB8FikQEoltrog9xGMTpwsmiumCi6vx&amp;index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">our YouTube.<\/a><\/strong><\/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:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MzkkQKb-l48\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><strong>J\u00f3zef Czapski <\/strong>(1896-1993) was born to aristocracy but died in materially modest circumstances, in a tiny room he had occupied for decades in Maisons-Laffitte, home of the Polish \u00e9migr\u00e9 press in Paris known as \u201cKultura.\u201d He thought of himself mainly as a painter\u2014an activity he pursued throughout his life, also producing hundreds of volumes of diaries and sketches. He is remembered, however, mainly as a soldier who was captured by the Germans in World War II and transferred to the Soviets, and miraculously survived the Soviet camps while around 22,000 of his fellow Polish officers were murdered by the Soviets on Stalin\u2019s orders in the Katy\u0144 forest in 1940. While serving under General W\u0142adys\u0142aw Anders in 1941-42, he returned to the Soviet Union to investigate the fate of the missing officers, without success. His <em>Inhuman Land <\/em>is a compelling account of his search, and <em>Memories of Starobielsk<\/em> might be read as an attempt to restore the humanity of the prisoners who were lost, based on what he recalled of some of their prewar civilian lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this episode, we reflect on some of his humanizing portraits in words, his remarkable lectures on Marcel Proust delivered in a Soviet prison camp, and think about aspects of Czapski\u2019s biography that are revealed in his paintings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>J\u00f3zef Czapski in English Translation and books about Czapski<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Czapski, J\u00f3zef. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyrb.com\/products\/inhuman-land\">Inhuman Land<\/a><\/em>. Tr. Antonia Lloyd-Jones. New York: New York Review Books, 2018. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Czapski, J\u00f3zef.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyrb.com\/products\/lost-time\"><em> Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp<\/em><\/a>. Tr. Eric Karpeles. New York: New York Review Books, 2018. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Czapski, J\u00f3zef. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyrb.com\/products\/memories-of-starobielsk\">Memories of Starobielsk<\/a><\/em>. Tr. Alissa Valles. New York: New York Review Books, 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Karpeles, Eric. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyrb.com\/products\/almost-nothing\">Almost Nothing: The 20<sup>th<\/sup>-Century Art and Life of J\u00f3zef Czapski<\/a><\/em>. New York: New York Review Books, 2018. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Karpeles, Eric.<a href=\"https:\/\/wwnorton.com\/books\/9780500023044\/about-the-book\/product-details\"> <em>J\u00f3zef Czapski: An Apprenticeship of Looking<\/em><\/a>. London &amp; New York: Thames &amp; Hudson, 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"814\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/11\/irena-027IGGcropped-Joanna-Gromek-Illg-814x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9666\" style=\"width:339px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/11\/irena-027IGGcropped-Joanna-Gromek-Illg-814x1024.jpeg 814w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/11\/irena-027IGGcropped-Joanna-Gromek-Illg-238x300.jpeg 238w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/11\/irena-027IGGcropped-Joanna-Gromek-Illg-768x966.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/11\/irena-027IGGcropped-Joanna-Gromek-Illg.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 814px) 100vw, 814px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>Image: Irena Grudzi\u0144ska Gross, image courtesy of Joanna Gromek Illg<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Irena Grudzi\u0144ska Gross <\/strong>(Instytut Slawistyki PAN in Warsaw and emeritus at Princeton University) was involved in the student movement and emigrated from her native Poland after the unrest of 1968. She resumed her studies in Italy and received her PhD from Columbia University in 1982. She taught courses in East European literature and history at several universities and was a 2018 Fellow at the Guggenheim Foundation. Her books include <em>Mi\u0142osz and the Long Shadow of War<\/em> (2020); <em>Golden Harvest<\/em> (with Jan T. Gross, 2012); <em>Czes\u0142aw Mi\u0142osz and Joseph Brodsky: Fellowship of Poets<\/em> (2009); and <em>The Scar of Revolution: Tocqueville, Custine and the Romantic Imagination<\/em> (1995).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-2 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Bartek Remisko, Executive Producer<\/em><br><em>David A. Goldfarb, Host &amp; Producer&nbsp;<\/em><br><em>Natalia Iyudin, Producer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lead image: <em>Czapski, self portrait, 1967,<\/em> <em>image <em>courtesy of Miko\u0142aj Nowak-Rogozi\u0144ski<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:31px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"972\" height=\"472\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/05\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-10-at-10.12.09-AM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/05\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-10-at-10.12.09-AM.png 972w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/05\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-10-at-10.12.09-AM-300x146.png 300w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/05\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-10-at-10.12.09-AM-768x373.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 972px) 100vw, 972px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S3E12 and all video recordings are available on&nbsp;our YouTube. 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