A Watch on a Chain
Lecture on the collapse of counterfeit theology in Stendhal’s The Red and the Black A watch lay on the felt […]
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A series of literature lectures in a broad sweep, from Ireland to Poland and further into the world: epics and gospels, classics, modern novels, poems, plays. Close reading meets history and craft, tracing how sentences carry faith, desire, and power—book by book, voice by voice.
These lectures span the early 2000s to the present: I wrote and delivered them across that period, and I continue to add to the series today. Some are translations of earlier work written in Polish; others were composed in English, mainly from 2012 onward.
Lecture on the collapse of counterfeit theology in Stendhal’s The Red and the Black A watch lay on the felt […]
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Listen to the Lecture Lecture on Erasmus’s Legacy and Luther’s Revolt Word moved before any of us learned to spell
Egg and Bird, Ink and Fire Read More »
Lecture on the Masonry of Redemption in Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables A cracked teacup sat on the lip of the
A Teacup on a Barricade Read More »
Lecture on how Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur turns vows that corrode into lived argument. A lamp hung low above
A Crown of Salt and Iron Read More »
Lecture on the work, friendship, and the ethics of Suffering in Louis Sachar’s Holes The lakebed lay chalk-white under a
God’s Thumb and the Desert Ledger Read More »
Lecture on how Max Frisch’s Homo Faber turns rationality fracture into lived argument The village clock hung above the conservatory
A Village Clock under Alpine Light Read More »
Lecture on seduction turns argument lived; rebellion’s beauty wins consent; consequence. Rain kept worrying the glass roof of the conservatory,
The Devil’s Receipt Book Read More »
lecture on Goethe’s Erl-king You know the sound already, even when nobody names it: hooves on wet ground, breath torn
Faultless soul disease Read More »
Lecture aboutCervantes as his own Don Quixote The old soldier arrived before your coats had finished steaming on the backs
The unlucky man of La Mancha Read More »
Lecture on Mikhail Sholokhov’s authorship of “And Quiet Flows the Don“ The queue moved inch by inch along the corridor,
Quiet Don, Loud Accusations Read More »