We would like to invite you to take the following course offered during this semester by the Department of Slavic Languages at Columbia University:
Fall 2015; Code: CLPLG4042
Instr.: Anna Frajlich-Zajac
Wed. 4:10-6:00, Hamilton Hall 406
Course description: During the inter-war period (1918-1939), Polish narrative prose experienced its most innovative and invigorating phase. The novels we will read and discuss introduce a diversity of techniques and topics relevant today as ever, such as the “lost generation,” economic depression, homosexuality, identity and displacement. Students will examine the narrative technique of Gombrowicz and Schulz whose postmodern narratives found their ways into international curricula.
We will view movies based on many of these novels made by prominent directors.
The course will give students in the departments of Slavic Languages, Comparative Lit., and Area Studies an opportunity to fulfill requirements for their respective concentrations. Novels on the reading list have been translated into foreign languages, including English, Russian, French, German directors. and Czech.
