LITMIR.BIZ

Скачать книгу

>

      

      Holy Week

      Ohio University Press Polish and Polish-American Studies Series

       Series Editor: John J. Bukowczyk

      Framing the Polish Home: Postwar Cultural Constructions of Hearth, Nation, and Self, edited by Bożena Shallcross

      Traitors and True Poles: Narrating a Polish-American Identity, 1880–1939, by Karen Majewski

      Auschwitz, Poland, and the Politics of Commemoration, 1945–1979, by Jonathan Huener

      The Exile Mission: The Polish Political Diaspora and Polish-Americans, 1939–1956, by Anna D. Jaroszysńska-Kirchmann

      The Grasinski Girls: The Choices They Had and the Choices They Made, by Mary Patrice Erdmans

      Testaments: Two Novellas of Emigration and Exile, by Danuta Mostwin

      The Clash of Moral Nations: Cultural Politics in Piłsudski’s Poland, 1926–1935, by Eva Plach

      Holy Week: A Novel of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, by Jerzy Andrzejewski

      SERIES ADVISORY BOARD

      M. B. B. Biskupski, Central Connecticut State University

      Robert E. Blobaum, West Virginia University

      Anthony Bukoski, University of Wisconsin-Superior

      Bogdana Carpenter, University of Michigan

      Mary Patrice Erdmans, Central Connecticut State University

      Thomas S. Gladsky, Central Missouri State University (ret.)

      Padraic Kenney, University of Colorado at Boulder

      John J. Kulczycki, University of Illinois at Chicago (ret.)

      Ewa Morawska, University of Essex

      Antony Polonsky, Brandeis University

      Brian Porter, University of Michigan

      James S. Pula, Purdue University North Central

      Thaddeus C. Radzilowski, Piast Institute

      Daniel Stone, University of Winnipeg

      Adam Walaszek, Jagiellonian University

      Theodore R. Weeks, Southern Illinois University

      Holy Week

       A Novel of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

      Jerzy Andrzejewski

       Introduction and Commentary by Oscar E. Swan

       Foreword by Jan Gross

      OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS

      ATHENS

      Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 45701

      www.ohio.edu/oupress © 2007 by Ohio University Press

      Printed in the United States of America

      All rights reserved

      Ohio University Press books are printed on acid-free paper

      14 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 5 4 3 2 1

      Cover image: Still from the motion picture Wielki Tydzień (Holy Week). Courtesy of Andrzej Wajda

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Andrzejewski, Jerzy, 1909–1983.

      [Wielki Tydzień. English]

      Holy Week : a novel of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising / Jerzy Andrzejewski ; introduction and commentary by Oscar E. Swan ; foreword by Jan Gross.

      p. cm. — (Ohio University Press Polish and Polish-American studies series)

      Includes bibliographical references.

      ISBN-13: 978-0-8214-1715-7 (cloth : alk. paper)

      ISBN-10: 0-8214-1715-0 (cloth : alk. paper)

      ISBN-13: 978-0-8214-1716-4 (pbk. : alk. paper)

      ISBN-10: 0-8214-1716-9 (pbk. : alk. paper)

      1. Warsaw (Poland)—History—Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943—Fiction. I. Swan, Oscar E. II. Title.

      PG7158.A7W5413 2007

      891.8'537—dc22

      2006024584

       Publication of books in the Polish and Polish-American Studies Series has been made possible in part by the generous support of the following organizations:

      Polish American Historical Association, New Britain, Connecticut

      Stanislaus A. Blejwas Endowed Chair in Polish and Polish American Studies, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, Connecticut

      The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, Inc., New York, New York

      The Piast Institute: An Institute for Polish and Polish American Affairs, Detroit, Michigan

      Additional support for this book has been provided by the Richard D. and Mary Jane Edwards Endowed Publication Fund, University of Pittsburgh

      Contents

       Foreword

       Series Editor’s Preface

       Acknowledgments and Notes on the Translation

       Note on the Author

       Note on the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

       Introduction: Jerzy Andrzejewski’s Holy Week

       Guide to Pronunciation

       Holy Week

       Afterword: Andrzej Wajda’s Film Holy Week

       Notes

      Foreword

      AS A BRILLIANT NOVELIST and prose writer, Jerzy Andrzejewski is a rare specimen in the firmament of Polish literature, which abounds in extraordinarily talented poets. Two of his contemporaries, Czesław Miłosz and Wisława Szymborska, received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980 and 1996 respectively, and while Andrzejewski lived, there was an aura of expectation that he would be awarded a Nobel as well.

      Andrzejewski’s literary career spanned the entire short twentieth century and a gamut of ideological positions. Just before the war in 1939, he received the much-coveted Young Authors’ Prize of the Polish Academy of Literature for a collection of short stories and his novel Mode of the Heart (Ład serca), and he was hailed as a rising star of Catholic literature. Shortly after the war, his novel Ashes and Diamonds (Popiół i diament) was widely admired as an artistically brilliant portrayal of the new political era that had dawned in Poland with the accession to power of the Communist Party. Later this book was turned into a cult film by director Andrzej Wajda and gained international acclaim. Andrzejewski was lionized by the new regime, and his intellectual

Скачать книгу