Post by pieter on Feb 24, 2019 6:34:40 GMT -7
I don't speak, read or write Polish, but feel an emotional, cultural, blood (50% of my blood), family and personal connection to Poland (because I was in Poland during the seventies, eitghties -1984/1987 and early this century 2004 and 2006). Polish literature (in Dutch and English translation), Polish cinema (movies) with Dutch subtitles (but with the sound, meaning, atmosphere and content of the Polish voices of the actors and actresses), Polish poetry, Polish fine art and Polish people (my mother, grandmother, grandfather, uncles, aunts and cousins) played and play a role in my life. In my opinion Poland is part of the Central European (Middle Europe between Nordic Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithunia, West-European Ireland, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg, France and Germany, Southern-European Portugal, Spain, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece and the European part of Turkey and Eastern-Europe consisting of Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania and Georgia [in the cultural sense I consider Georgia European]) space in Europe. Poland in my opinion belongs to the Central-European space of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria, Eastern-Germany and and also Switzerland (connect to Central-Europe by the German/Austrian connection of the Deutschschweizer -the German-speaking Swiss -). Not only in the geographical sense, but also in the cultural, historical, financial-economical, social and human sense. Poland has the old influence of the Old West-Slavic Polans united various Lechitic tribes under what became the Piast dynasty, thus creating the Polish state. But Poland as a West-Slavic Roman-Catholic state, nation and culture underwent a significant Latin (Roman/Italian) influence, Bohemian (South-Western Czech) influence, Jewish (Ashkenazi Yiddish and Polononist Jewish) influence, a West-Germanic (German Prussian, Austrian Habsburg and Dutch Methodist settler) influence and and last but not least next to that some Baltic (Lithuanian) and Eastern-Slavic Russian, Belarussian and Ukrianian influences.
In that Central-European influence of the Prussian, Habsburg and Czarist Russian influence the Polish culture has a rich merger of cultural influences which makes up the present day Polish culture, literature, Fine Art, sciences and thus people. Under all these foreign influences always lied and always will stay the original and authentic Polish roots, Peoples spirit and the Polish independent and autonomous mind, which is shaped by the Polish language, culture, heritage, customs and traditions. I wrote in this text about my idea that Poland is a Central-European (Middle Europe) country and therefor during the centuries and during the 20th century and 21 th century underwent a Western influence and in an intellectual context was and is connected to the Germans speaking, French speaking, Italian and Anglo-Saxon world (the Polish Americans, Poles in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and Canada).
Franz Kafka was a Central-European, Czech, Jewish, German language writer. The literary work of the Polish writer, fine artist, literary critic and art teacher Bruno Schulz is often compared to that of Marcel Proust, Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka. Bruno Schulz translated the novel The Trial (Der Process) together with his Der Process Jozefina Szelińska into Polish in 1936. The Prague of Franz Kafka was not so far away from Bruno Schulz Drohobych, and also not so far away from Warszawa, Kraków, Lwów, Wilno, Budapest, Bukarest, Berlin and Vienna of that time. It was one cultural space of the Interbellum (November 1918 - September 1939) era. Franz Kafka was part of the world of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, Jerzy Szaniawski, Karol Irzykowski, Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski and Leopold Staff and other Polish writers, artists and poets. (P.S.- I wanted to translate this text with Google translate, but don't trust the accuracy of Google translation, because I can't check and judge the result)
Thank God I found some Polish translations of Franz Kafka in Polish:
( Click on this Polish language youtube link to play it in youtube )
In that Central-European influence of the Prussian, Habsburg and Czarist Russian influence the Polish culture has a rich merger of cultural influences which makes up the present day Polish culture, literature, Fine Art, sciences and thus people. Under all these foreign influences always lied and always will stay the original and authentic Polish roots, Peoples spirit and the Polish independent and autonomous mind, which is shaped by the Polish language, culture, heritage, customs and traditions. I wrote in this text about my idea that Poland is a Central-European (Middle Europe) country and therefor during the centuries and during the 20th century and 21 th century underwent a Western influence and in an intellectual context was and is connected to the Germans speaking, French speaking, Italian and Anglo-Saxon world (the Polish Americans, Poles in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and Canada).
Franz Kafka was a Central-European, Czech, Jewish, German language writer. The literary work of the Polish writer, fine artist, literary critic and art teacher Bruno Schulz is often compared to that of Marcel Proust, Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka. Bruno Schulz translated the novel The Trial (Der Process) together with his Der Process Jozefina Szelińska into Polish in 1936. The Prague of Franz Kafka was not so far away from Bruno Schulz Drohobych, and also not so far away from Warszawa, Kraków, Lwów, Wilno, Budapest, Bukarest, Berlin and Vienna of that time. It was one cultural space of the Interbellum (November 1918 - September 1939) era. Franz Kafka was part of the world of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, Jerzy Szaniawski, Karol Irzykowski, Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski and Leopold Staff and other Polish writers, artists and poets. (P.S.- I wanted to translate this text with Google translate, but don't trust the accuracy of Google translation, because I can't check and judge the result)
Thank God I found some Polish translations of Franz Kafka in Polish:
( Click on this Polish language youtube link to play it in youtube )