Śnienie (Dreaming) is a collection of lyric fragments that revolve around dreams and the way they reflect, refract, and seep into the waking world. Read individually, the fragments are measured and contemplative, imagistic and surreal, and peppered with humor of the absurd. Taken together, we start to notice obsessions and threads that serve as lodestars guiding us through the chaotic unconscious. Figures and events return, but what’s most recognizable about them is their tendency toward transformation and flux. Aphorism-like truths are posited, then questioned. An idea comes to light, then blends into a fabric of images, literatures, religions, histories, and the quotidian everyday, and becomes something else altogether.
Humans
- Marta Zelwan (author)
- Victoria Miluch (translator)
- Agnieszka Brzezanska (artist)
ISBN
978-1-946031-45-7LCCN
2019901272Page count
160Keywords
Prose, Translation, Dual Language, Polish, English, Polish-English, Polish To EnglishPublication date
2019Language(s)
Polish, EnglishPublication media type
Print DocumentTranslation
Dual-Language
Publication series
Glossarium: Unsilenced TextsŚnienie (Dreaming)
About the Contributor(s)
Marta Zelwan is a Polish writer based in Warsaw. She has published nine books, including collections of poetry, prose, and essays. Two of her books have been nominated for the Nike Award, Poland's most prestigious literary award, and she has won the Iskry Press Prize, the Literature Foundation Prize, the Stanislaw Piętak Prize, and the Edward Stachura Prize, as well as the Culture Foundation Prize.
Victoria Miluch is a fiction writer and translator. Her stories have appeared in such publications as Passages North, The Southeast Review, and The Adroit Journal, and her translations can be found in Asymptote and the Denver Quarterly. A recipient of a Fulbright fellowship, she now lives abroad.
Agnieszka Brzezanska (born 1972, in Gdańsk) is a Polish artist based in Warsaw.
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