Piotr Florczyk
Biographic Data
| ID | 992531 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Piotr Florczyk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Piotr |
| FAMILY NAME | Florczyk |
| SIGNATURE | FLORCZYK P |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Real Books
Real Books by Anna Frajlich translated by Piotr Florczyk And yet they still read real books turning page after page on the bus on the subway on the train sitting next to me on the bench a young man is reading Death in Venice. I also know another one he was so taken with little Tadzio that he rejected his own name and now goes by “Tadzio.” Little Tadzio has died and so has the great Thomas Mann. Death in Venice lives on. Translation from the Polis…
Aleš ŠtegerAbove the Sky Beneath the Earth by Brian Henry
In the last and longest story, “The Opiate Eyes of the Buddha,” Katherine, vacationing in post-tsunami Sri Lanka, joins a hotel celebration that ends in horrific murder. Having risked death to escape, she asks: “Where is the dialogue between us and space, us and God? The bridge? The cosmic cable? . . . I’ve learnt something . . . to be less spoilt, to be more grateful. To try to be alive, not to take it for granted. Maybe to be alive . . . is to …
Lawrence VenutiContra Instrumentalism
thank Janet Hong, whose translation so beautifully captures this tension. Of the ten stories included in the collection , three are speculative (“Waxen Wings,” “Nightmare,” “The Woman Next Door”) while the other seven explore how characters can be haunted even when there’s nothing supernatural about their situation. Taken together, these stories provoke a kind of existential dread that is at once terrifying and familiar. It’s unclear in “Waxen Wi…
Johannes GöranssonTransgressive Circulation
the voice notes that the couple complement each other, Artur says, “We complement each other.” When it announces, “The rhinos are outside,” Printz thinks, “It’s good that the rhinos are outside.” The voice becomes their shadow. Twentieth-century history has marked these lives. Isabella talks to her thirty-six garden gnomes, one for each family member lost to the Holocaust. Printz’s mother’s silver was confiscated from Isabella’s Jewish family . K…
This Poem Is You
whose own writing, like Anaya’s, discloses a discursive sensibility reformed by hemispheric renegotiations of subjection. Many of the essays included in the volume will prove to be classic considerations on Anaya’s global and transnational reach— Horst Tonn, Francisco Lomelí, John Pohl, Heiner Bus, Rosaura Sánchez, and Robert Con Davis-Undiano considerably deepen the complexities between region and the wider constellations of a particular literar…
Magnetic Point
oppressive rule of de Men, is that humans have lost the ability to reproduce, though something like love exists for some. The title suggests a plot embroidered by thoughts that transcend the action, implying perhaps a problematic supernatural . Indeed, with names such as Jean de Men, Christine, Trinculo, Joan, and a platform called CIEL, the teasers are there. And there are the grafted stories of Joan and a real Joan. We are intrigued, even if we…
The Mountains of Parnassus by Stanley Bill
George Henson is a translator of contemporary Latin American narrative, a contributing editor at World Literature Today, and lecturer in Spanish at the University of Oklahoma. unlike those of dreams, are almost always pleasant.” Pitol’s characterization seems tailor -made for our unnamed, disembodied narrator with one exception: her memories are almost always unpleasant, anxious, even terrifying. “My memories make me fearful and undermine my sere…
The Knowledge by Robert Peake
Amjad Nasser. Petra: The Concealed Rose. Fady Joudah, tr. Portland, Oregon. Tavern Books. 2014. isbn 9781935635406 Petra is a beautiful hand-sewn chapbook whose text is set in handsome Garamond typeface printed on archival-quality paper and published as a small paperback of thirty -two pages. It offers a poetic translation of Amjad Nasser’s Arabic prose lyric on Petra, the Nabataean city about which the English Anglican clergyman John William Bur…
Report from the Interior by Paul Auster
Rodrigo Rey Rosa The African Shore Jeffrey Gray, tr. Yale University Press A Colombian tourist in Tangier who has lost his passport carries an owl through crowded city streets. A young shepherd, whose heart is set on finding his fortune in Spain, sees the owl and decides to steal it. A curious tale of the violence, mistrust, and destruction one inevitably finds near borders, Rodrigo Rey Rosa’s latest novel is a dark and intriguing travelogue. Cla…
City That Ripens on the Tree of the World by Robin Davidson
Alessandro Marzo Magno Bound in Venice Gregory Conti, tr. Europa Editions Described by one reviewer as a “hymn to books,” Bound in Venice is an essential read for anyone who loves books. The book follows the life of the Michelangelo of publishing, Aldus Manutius, and uses him as a springboard to launch into both the historical development of reading for pleasure and the history of the sixteenth-century Venetian empire. Brigitte Lozerec’h Sisters …
Kopenhaga by Grzegorz Wrblewski
118 worldliteraturetoday.org reviews Rogers’s poems propose a mechanism to rediscover an essential, compassionate regard of self and nature. For example, in “Vulnerable and Susceptible,” how one encounters animals in the wild and then learns something about oneself is a fundamental metaphor to hold fast in order to overcome the “blindness caused / by the absence of light.” Such a process is regenerative, and the experience of reading the poems in…
Three Poems
Three Poems Jacek Gutorow photo: jens mayer 30 | World Literature Today The Winter’s Tale It was snowing the entire day. So heavily it buried thoughts. In the eyes of the passersby it snowed as well. So much of it that there was no doubt: in the end everybody will start speaking in tongues of snow, barely audible, rustling through the night and all of next day. Origami Three cardboard houses. Nobody lives there. Sometimes I think I’m moving into …
Berlin Stories by Robert Walser
May– june 2012 73 Living Spirit: Literature and Resurgence in Okinawa Frank Stewart & Katsunori Yamazato, eds. University of Hawai`i Press This rich volume, which includes ancient lyrics through contemporary works of fiction, drama, and poetry, reflects the irrepressible spirit of native Okinawans. Higa Yasuo’s striking photographs of maternal deities provide added depth of meaning. Tomas Espedal Against Art James Anderson, tr. Seagull Books The …
Maggot by Paul Muldoon
Yet amidthefragments and ruins ofwarfare, Henson'sdynamic word visions makeus moreawareofthe astonishing beautythatremains in ourworld. NormaC. Wilson University ofSouthDakota Cvetka Lipus. Pojdimo vezat kosti. Ljubljana, Slovenia. Mladinska. 2010. 109 pages. €19.95. isbn978-961-011068 -2 In hersixth andmostrecent collection ofpoems, Cvetka Lipusdelivers a rich,denseset of highlyevocativetexts , demonstrating thatshe has takenherpoetryto new leve…
They Carry a Promise
> < Q o Schwarcz's imagination and sensibility are best exemplified in the poems inspired by theChinese classics and language. "Confucius Feasting" juxtaposes two separate episodes fromTheAnalects, towhich is added an imagined thirdepisode. Shao gg, thename ofmusic allegedly composed by Emperor Shun is rendered here as "an ancient ode," thus joining the second stanza, in which the master enumerates the reasons why one should cherish the Book ofOd…
The Great Wave by Ron Slate
deals with a sense of "newness/7 echoing thenotion of this thirdbook in the series. He writes: "This is the new novel. / This is the new unprocessed & overwrought. /This is the new ugly; / This is the new empty." "New empty," however, these poems are not. The series as a whole has been attended towith commitment and a great sense of professionalism. What is now avail able is a fabulous trilogy of New Zealand's performance poets over the ages brou…
From the Interior
Petr Borkovec FROMTHE INTERIOR Poems 1995 - 2005 Tr.m?>Lued fro;n the ( by Justin Quinn idiom into forms that are power ful and new, has been compellingly captured by the translators in this volume. As she said in a recent interview: "Allmy lifeI've been say ing that I serve poetry. Lately Ihave begun to see thatwhat I am really doing is serving language. Poetry is the instrument, the medium. I have an almost religious attachment to language." (E…
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They Carry a Promise
> < Q o Schwarcz's imagination and sensibility are best exemplified in the poems inspired by theChinese classics and language. "Confucius Feasting" juxtaposes two separate episodes fromTheAnalects, towhich is added an imagined thirdepisode. Shao gg, thename ofmusic allegedly composed by Emperor Shun is rendered here as "an ancient ode," thus joining the second stanza, in which the master enumerates the reasons why one should cherish the Book ofOd…
The Great Wave by Ron Slate
deals with a sense of "newness/7 echoing thenotion of this thirdbook in the series. He writes: "This is the new novel. / This is the new unprocessed & overwrought. /This is the new ugly; / This is the new empty." "New empty," however, these poems are not. The series as a whole has been attended towith commitment and a great sense of professionalism. What is now avail able is a fabulous trilogy of New Zealand's performance poets over the ages brou…
From the Interior
Petr Borkovec FROMTHE INTERIOR Poems 1995 - 2005 Tr.m?>Lued fro;n the ( by Justin Quinn idiom into forms that are power ful and new, has been compellingly captured by the translators in this volume. As she said in a recent interview: "Allmy lifeI've been say ing that I serve poetry. Lately Ihave begun to see thatwhat I am really doing is serving language. Poetry is the instrument, the medium. I have an almost religious attachment to language." (E…
Maggot by Paul Muldoon
Yet amidthefragments and ruins ofwarfare, Henson'sdynamic word visions makeus moreawareofthe astonishing beautythatremains in ourworld. NormaC. Wilson University ofSouthDakota Cvetka Lipus. Pojdimo vezat kosti. Ljubljana, Slovenia. Mladinska. 2010. 109 pages. €19.95. isbn978-961-011068 -2 In hersixth andmostrecent collection ofpoems, Cvetka Lipusdelivers a rich,denseset of highlyevocativetexts , demonstrating thatshe has takenherpoetryto new leve…
Three Poems
Three Poems Jacek Gutorow photo: jens mayer 30 | World Literature Today The Winter’s Tale It was snowing the entire day. So heavily it buried thoughts. In the eyes of the passersby it snowed as well. So much of it that there was no doubt: in the end everybody will start speaking in tongues of snow, barely audible, rustling through the night and all of next day. Origami Three cardboard houses. Nobody lives there. Sometimes I think I’m moving into …
Berlin Stories by Robert Walser
May– june 2012 73 Living Spirit: Literature and Resurgence in Okinawa Frank Stewart & Katsunori Yamazato, eds. University of Hawai`i Press This rich volume, which includes ancient lyrics through contemporary works of fiction, drama, and poetry, reflects the irrepressible spirit of native Okinawans. Higa Yasuo’s striking photographs of maternal deities provide added depth of meaning. Tomas Espedal Against Art James Anderson, tr. Seagull Books The …
Report from the Interior by Paul Auster
Rodrigo Rey Rosa The African Shore Jeffrey Gray, tr. Yale University Press A Colombian tourist in Tangier who has lost his passport carries an owl through crowded city streets. A young shepherd, whose heart is set on finding his fortune in Spain, sees the owl and decides to steal it. A curious tale of the violence, mistrust, and destruction one inevitably finds near borders, Rodrigo Rey Rosa’s latest novel is a dark and intriguing travelogue. Cla…
City That Ripens on the Tree of the World by Robin Davidson
Alessandro Marzo Magno Bound in Venice Gregory Conti, tr. Europa Editions Described by one reviewer as a “hymn to books,” Bound in Venice is an essential read for anyone who loves books. The book follows the life of the Michelangelo of publishing, Aldus Manutius, and uses him as a springboard to launch into both the historical development of reading for pleasure and the history of the sixteenth-century Venetian empire. Brigitte Lozerec’h Sisters …
Kopenhaga by Grzegorz Wrblewski
118 worldliteraturetoday.org reviews Rogers’s poems propose a mechanism to rediscover an essential, compassionate regard of self and nature. For example, in “Vulnerable and Susceptible,” how one encounters animals in the wild and then learns something about oneself is a fundamental metaphor to hold fast in order to overcome the “blindness caused / by the absence of light.” Such a process is regenerative, and the experience of reading the poems in…
The Knowledge by Robert Peake
Amjad Nasser. Petra: The Concealed Rose. Fady Joudah, tr. Portland, Oregon. Tavern Books. 2014. isbn 9781935635406 Petra is a beautiful hand-sewn chapbook whose text is set in handsome Garamond typeface printed on archival-quality paper and published as a small paperback of thirty -two pages. It offers a poetic translation of Amjad Nasser’s Arabic prose lyric on Petra, the Nabataean city about which the English Anglican clergyman John William Bur…
This Poem Is You
whose own writing, like Anaya’s, discloses a discursive sensibility reformed by hemispheric renegotiations of subjection. Many of the essays included in the volume will prove to be classic considerations on Anaya’s global and transnational reach— Horst Tonn, Francisco Lomelí, John Pohl, Heiner Bus, Rosaura Sánchez, and Robert Con Davis-Undiano considerably deepen the complexities between region and the wider constellations of a particular literar…
Magnetic Point
oppressive rule of de Men, is that humans have lost the ability to reproduce, though something like love exists for some. The title suggests a plot embroidered by thoughts that transcend the action, implying perhaps a problematic supernatural . Indeed, with names such as Jean de Men, Christine, Trinculo, Joan, and a platform called CIEL, the teasers are there. And there are the grafted stories of Joan and a real Joan. We are intrigued, even if we…
The Mountains of Parnassus by Stanley Bill
George Henson is a translator of contemporary Latin American narrative, a contributing editor at World Literature Today, and lecturer in Spanish at the University of Oklahoma. unlike those of dreams, are almost always pleasant.” Pitol’s characterization seems tailor -made for our unnamed, disembodied narrator with one exception: her memories are almost always unpleasant, anxious, even terrifying. “My memories make me fearful and undermine my sere…
Lawrence VenutiContra Instrumentalism
thank Janet Hong, whose translation so beautifully captures this tension. Of the ten stories included in the collection , three are speculative (“Waxen Wings,” “Nightmare,” “The Woman Next Door”) while the other seven explore how characters can be haunted even when there’s nothing supernatural about their situation. Taken together, these stories provoke a kind of existential dread that is at once terrifying and familiar. It’s unclear in “Waxen Wi…
Johannes GöranssonTransgressive Circulation
the voice notes that the couple complement each other, Artur says, “We complement each other.” When it announces, “The rhinos are outside,” Printz thinks, “It’s good that the rhinos are outside.” The voice becomes their shadow. Twentieth-century history has marked these lives. Isabella talks to her thirty-six garden gnomes, one for each family member lost to the Holocaust. Printz’s mother’s silver was confiscated from Isabella’s Jewish family . K…
Aleš ŠtegerAbove the Sky Beneath the Earth by Brian Henry
In the last and longest story, “The Opiate Eyes of the Buddha,” Katherine, vacationing in post-tsunami Sri Lanka, joins a hotel celebration that ends in horrific murder. Having risked death to escape, she asks: “Where is the dialogue between us and space, us and God? The bridge? The cosmic cable? . . . I’ve learnt something . . . to be less spoilt, to be more grateful. To try to be alive, not to take it for granted. Maybe to be alive . . . is to …
Real Books
Real Books by Anna Frajlich translated by Piotr Florczyk And yet they still read real books turning page after page on the bus on the subway on the train sitting next to me on the bench a young man is reading Death in Venice. I also know another one he was so taken with little Tadzio that he rejected his own name and now goes by “Tadzio.” Little Tadzio has died and so has the great Thomas Mann. Death in Venice lives on. Translation from the Polis…
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