Continuing with my erratic movie posts for this year… For more foreign movies, check out Caroline’s World Cinema Series 2012 and Richard’s monthly Foreign Film Festival round-up. Another post about a film adaptation of a recent book I’ve read… The IMDb.com page for Wierna rzeka provides the summary: Set during the insurgency of 1863, the […]
Tag: Stefan Zeromski
The Faithful River by Stefan Żeromski Translated by Bill Johnston Northwestern University Press, 179 pages ISBN: 978-0810115965 The Faithful River is set in the Kielce region of central Poland in the winter and spring of 1863, during the January Uprising. At this time the country of Poland did not exist; since the partitions of the […]
Since I will be reading several of Stefan Żeromski’s books this year (The Faithful River, Ashes, and The Coming Spring), I thought an introduction to the author was appropriate. The article at Culture.pl serves as a good overview since it goes into great detail about his life and works. In addition, I’ll provide a few […]