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Captivity and Creativity in 20th Century Polish Literature: Józef Czapski and His Poets- A Discussion and Reading

Join Eric Karpeles and Alissa Valles for a discussion of the Polish painter and writer Józef Czapski: his life, his work, and the remarkable range of poets he inspired. Karpeles and Valles are the translators of the NYRB Classics titles Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp and Memories of Starobielsk: Essays Between Art and History, respectively, both of which collect Czapski’s critical writing, authored either about or during his internment in a Soviet Prison Camp between 1939 and 1941.

Translating André Bazin’s Film Criticism

How do translators bring to English-language readers of the 21st c. André Bazin’s classical style, extended metaphors, and ineffable elan? In the midst of translating 120 of his 2700 pieces— magisterial essays on cinema as well as reviews of forgotten movies—should “fidelity to the letter or to the spirit” be emphasized, as he asked about adaptation? Debating a few challenging instances, while looking at other extant translations, this roundtable will scrutinize translation as it converges with the mode of the essay and the genius of Bazin’s writing

Documentary Film: I Am Free...But Who Is Left?

I Am Free…But Who Is Left? (Joanne W. Rudof, 2021, DCP, 92 mins)

Joanne W. Rudof in person! Reflective, first-person accounts of the Nazi invasion of a small Polish town are supplemented by family photos and historical documents in this recent documentary by a long-time archivist at Yale’s Fortunoff Archive. Presented by the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies and the Yale Film Archive. Co-sponsored by the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism.

In the Garden of the Righteous: The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust

During the Holocaust, a handful of non-Jewish people risked their lives to save the targeted and condemned. While a few, such as Oskar Schindler and Raoul Wallenberg, have received international attention for their valor, Yad Vashem, the memorial to the Holocaust in Israel, has recognized some 27,000 who risked their lives to save Jews with a special garden in Jerusalem.

THE GREEN RAY (Le Rayon vert, 1986, Éric Rohmer)

From Rohmer’s “Comedies and Proverbs” cycle, THE GREEN RAY follows the independent but insecure Delphine (Marie Rivière), a newly single young Parisian who cannot find a holiday companion for the month of August, as she meets and rejects, glides and stumbles in her longing for connection. Overhearing a discussion of Jules Verne’s THE GREEN RAY, Delphine becomes fascinated with seeing the elusive meteorological event and the promise that comes with it.

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