Friday 7 February, 5-7pm
4th floor Masaryk Senior Common Room
UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies
16 Taviton Street, London WC1H 0BW
FREE, followed by drinks reception
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Kopenhaga by Grzegorz Wróblewski
Poetry reading and discussion with Grzegorz Wróblewski and his translators, Piotr Gwiazda and Adam Zdrodowski. Introduction and chairing: Steven J. Fowler and Marcus Slease
Kopenhaga is the first comprehensive collection of prose poetry by Grzegorz Wróblewski, one of Poland’s leading contemporary writers. The book offers a series of vignettes from the crossroads of politics and culture, technology and ethics, consumerism and spirituality. It combines two tropes: the emigrant’s double identity and the ethnographer’s search for patterns. While ostensibly focused on Denmark, it functions as an investigation of alterity in the post-cold war era of ethnic strife and global capitalism. Whether he writes about refugees in Copenhagen (one of Europe’s major transnational cities), or the homeless, or the mentally ill, or any other marginalized group, Wróblewski points to the moral contradictions of a world supposedly without borders.
Grim, glancingly beautiful, always necessary.
—Joshua Clover
Wróblewski is the true poetic chronicler of our 21st century diaspora in all its absurdities and anxieties… Kopenhaga is a journey to the end of the night that always makes a U-turn in the middle, to take in the latest folly—and also self-rescue mission—of the transplant. Read it and weep—and then laugh!
—Marjorie Perloff
Read more about Wróblewski's Kopenhaga by Chad Post at Three Percent
Part of eMigrating Landscapes project ran by dr Urszula Chowaniec at UCL SSEES in collaboration with the Polish Cultural Institute in London, UCL European Institute, and OFF_Press