Wiesław Myśliwski’s Ideal Cinema
Jeremi Szaniawski
jeremi.szaniawski@gmail.comUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst (United States)
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5437-4516
Abstract
The author of this essay searches for traces confirming the influence of cinema on Wiesław Myśliwski’s life and works. Despite the fact that the writer acknowledged his love for cinema, this aspect is overlooked in discussions of his oeuvre. Myśliwski himself also does not devote much space to it in his recently published collection of texts and interviews W środku jesteśmy baśnią. Mowy i rozmowy [We are a Fairy Tales Within: Speeches and Conversations] (2022). In this article, the author devotes special attention to film motifs in the novel A Treatise on Shelling Beans (2013), the cinematic imagination that is revealed in this book, and the role of history in Myśliwski’s work.
Keywords:
Wiesław Myśliwski, modernism, film adaptationReferences
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Authors
Jeremi Szaniawskijeremi.szaniawski@gmail.com
University of Massachusetts Amherst United States
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5437-4516
Assistant Professor of film studies and comparative literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he is also the Amesbury Professor of Polish Language and Culture. Author and editor of several volumes in film studies, including the monograph The Cinema of Alexander Sokurov: Figures of Paradox (2014), as well as the edited volumes The Global Auteur: The Politics of Authorship in 21st Century Cinema (2016), On Women’s Films Across Worlds and Generations (2019), After Kubrick: A Filmmaker’s Legacy (2020), and Fredric Jameson and Film Theory: Marxism, Allegory, and Geopolitics in World Cinema (2022). He is currently working on a monograph on contemporary Polish literature and cinema.
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