The artist Marek Zulawski, translation & Polish-British cultureHi,I've been sick, and my kids have been sick, but my wife is a picture of loveliness even though she's been sick too. So I thought, why not translate something from my father's...
The artist Marek Zulawski, translation & Polish-British cultureHi,I didn't see much of this year's Olympics.I did hear that some Christians watching the opening ceremony somehow mistook a Dionysian feast for The Last Supper. And that the River Se...
The artist Marek Zulawski, translation & Polish-British cultureHi,This week I've translated something my father wrote in 1982, when he visited Poland while it was under Martial Law. The communist state was having trouble with rowdy unions st...
The artist Marek Zulawski, translation & Polish-British cultureHi,Never meet your heroes.That's what they say. But my father Marek met one of his by accident while visiting the mental asylum that was The Priory. He was there because his wife Hali...
The artist Marek Zulawski, translation & Polish-British cultureHi,I regularly have nightmares. At least once a week, I have some sort of upsetting adventure in my sleep. Monsters feature, murderers too. Cannibalism, radioactive meltdowns, zo...
The artist Marek Zulawski, translation & Polish-British cultureHi,This week I've translated a story about a girlfriend my father had during WWII. She made quite an impression on him.---A clashing of worlds Bush House, former home of the BBC World...
The artist Marek Zulawski, translation & Polish-British cultureHi,What with my grandfather Jerzy Żuławski's 150th anniversary this year, I thought I'd translate something of his. It's the start of a short story he wrote called A Fairy Tale about...
The artist Marek Zulawski, translation & Polish-British cultureHi,Moving away from all the drinking and sex that you're used to reading about in this newsletter, I thought I'd translate something less controversial...Yep, my father's thoughts on...
The artist Marek Zulawski, translation & Polish-British cultureHi,My father was a womaniser throughout his life.Once I realised, as a teenager, that he had had countless lovers and carried on a polyamorous (some would just say adulterous) persona...
The artist Marek Zulawski, translation & Polish-British cultureHi,This week I've translated another alcohol-fuelled story from my father Marek's youth.Much like in the last drunken episode I translated, about the last NYE before WWII, he used min...
