A Village Clock under Alpine Light
Lecture on how Max Frisch’s Homo Faber turns rationality fracture into lived argument The village clock hung above the conservatory […]
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Lectures
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.
The Devil’s Receipt Book
Lecture on seduction turns argument lived; rebellion’s beauty wins consent; consequence. Rain kept worrying the glass roof of the conservatory,
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Faultless soul disease
lecture on Goethe’s Erl-king You know the sound already, even when nobody names it: hooves on wet ground, breath torn
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The unlucky man of La Mancha
Lecture aboutCervantes as his own Don Quixote The old soldier arrived before your coats had finished steaming on the backs
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Quiet Don, Loud Accusations
Lecture on Mikhail Sholokhov’s authorship of “And Quiet Flows the Don“ The queue moved inch by inch along the corridor,
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Quercus Soul — Poland’s Oak-Bound Memory
Lecture on the Symbolic Life of the Oak in Polish Literature You, who sit before me in clean lecture halls
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Trifling with the Antichrist
Lecture about the peculiar affliction of Russian literature. You and I sit under light that pretends neutrality, while every desk,
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