ÿþ<HTML><HEAD> <TITLE>David A. Goldfarb: Home Page</TITLE> </HEAD><BODY> <IMG SRC="exlib.gif" ALT="[IMAGE: ExLibris, with apologies to Bruno Schulz]" ALIGN=Right> <H1>David A. Goldfarb: Home Page</H1> <IMG SRC="cvs.gif" Align=left> If you would like to find out about me and my work in Polish Literature, Russian Literature, Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, take a look at my <A HREF="vitae.htm"><B>Curriculum Vitae</B></A>, which provides convenient links to full-text versions of selected <A HREF="vitae.htm#[publications]"><B>publications and reviews</B></A>, <A HREF="vitae.htm#[conference]"><B>conference papers</B></A>, and <A HREF="vitae.htm#[syllabi]"><B>course syllabi</B></A> in a format familiar to academics. I currently serve as the Curator of Literature and Humanities at <a href="http://www.polishculture-nyc.org/"><b>The Polish Cultural Institute New York</b></a>.<P> <P> <H2>Selected Recent Publications</H2> <a href="http://jewishquarterly.org/2011/06/appropriations-of-bruno-schulz/"><img border="0" src="JQ218cover.jpg" width="111"><b>"Appropriations of Bruno Schulz." <I>Jewish Quarterly</I> 218 (Summer 2011).</b></a><P> <a href="http://www.universitas.com.pl/ksiazka/2475"><img border="0" src="1285330240_witold_gombrowicz_nasz.JPG"><b>"Eksplozja sBowa"("Word Explosion"). <I>Gombrowicz, nasz wspóBczesny</I>. Ed. Jerzy Jarzbski. Cracow: Universitas, 2010. 706-13.</b></a><P> <a href="http://www.akademicka.pl/cgi-local/start.pl?kom=pokaz&isbn=83-7676-018-6&uid=0"><img border="0" src="Schulz,meaningsreadings.jpg"> <b> PaBuby in Bruno Schulz s Workshop. <I>Bruno Schulz: New Readings, New Meanings</I>. Bruno Schulz: Nouvelles Lectures, Nouvelles Significations</I>. Ed. StanisBaw Latek. Cracow: Polska Akademia Umiejtno[ci, 85-94, 2009.</b></a><P> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143105140?ie=UTF8&tag=davagol-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0143105140"><img border="0" src="51iSyXwyGML._SL160_.jpg"></a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=davagol-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0143105140" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143105140?ie=UTF8&tag=davagol-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0143105140"><B><I>The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories</I> (Penguin Classics) by Bruno Schulz, Fwd. Jonathan Safran Foer, Intro. David A. Goldfarb, Trans. Celina Wieniewska</B></a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=davagol-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0143105140" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /><P> Reviewed by Bill Martin from the Polish Cultural Institute on <a href="http://bacacay.wordpress.com/2009/03/12/the-new-schulz-edition/"><B>Bacacay: The Polish Literature Weblog</B></a>.<P> Quoted by Chris Power on the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2010/dec/03/brief-survey-short-story-bruno-schulz"><B>Books Blog at the Guardian</B></a><P> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1593082614?ie=UTF8&tag=davagol-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1593082614"><img border="0" src="41XLY%2BeaPmL._SL160_.jpg"></a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=davagol-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1593082614" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1593082614?ie=UTF8&tag=davagol-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1593082614"><B><I>Fathers and Sons</I> (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Ivan Turgenev, Intro. and notes David A. Goldfarb</B></a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=davagol-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1593082614" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /><P> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1593080697?ie=UTF8&tag=davagol-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1593080697"><img border="0" src="518XMD706SL._SL160_.jpg"></a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=davagol-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1593080697" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1593080697?ie=UTF8&tag=davagol-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1593080697"><B><I>"The Death of Ivan Ilych" and Other Stories</I> (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Leo Tolstoy, Intro. and notes David A. Goldfarb</B></a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=davagol-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1593080697" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /><P> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0821414372?ie=UTF8&tag=davagol-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0821414372"><img border="0" src="41JNXYCM9CL._SL160_.jpg"></a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=davagol-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0821414372" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0821414372?ie=UTF8&tag=davagol-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0821414372"><B>"Gombrowicz's Binoculars: The View from Abroad" in <I>Framing the Polish Home: Postwar Cultural Constructions of Hearth, Nation, and Self,"</I> Ed. Bo|ena Shallcross</B></a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=davagol-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0821414372" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /><P> <H2>Current and Upcoming Conferences and Lectures</H2> <UL> <LI>November 19, 2012, 9:30 am - "Schulz, Barthes, and the Mythology of Everyday Life" <a href="http://ceeres.uchicago.edu/schulz"><b><i>Bruno Schulz, 1892-1942: Interdisciplinary Reassessments</i></b></a>, University of Chicago. <LI>November 23, 2012, 7 pm - "Schulz's Dominant Women," <a href="http://www.jhi.pl/uploads/attachment/file/50/FESTIWAL_SCHULZOWSKI.pdf"> <b><i>Schulz w Warszawie  Drohobycz w Warszawie</i>(PDF)</b></a>, PaBac Tyszkiewiczów-Potockich, Krakowskie Przedmie[cie, Warsaw, Poland. </UL> <H2>In the Media</H2> Quoted in a discussion of Tolstoy's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FWar-Peace-Leo-Tolstoy%2Fdp%2F0307266931%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1207077886%26sr%3D1-1&tag=davagol-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325"><B><i>War and Peace</i></B></a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=davagol-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /> in light of the new translation by Pevear and Volokhonsky on <a href="http://www.wnyc.org/shows/fishko/episodes/2007/10/19"><b>The Fishko Files</b></a> with Sara Fishko on WNYC, New York Public Radio.<P> <H2>Online Exhibits</H2> <H3><IMG SRC="panic.gif" ALT="[IMAGE: Panika]">Polish Expressionism</H3> These <A HREF="zdr02042.htm"><B>seven images</B></A> are Polish Expressionist graphics I have collected from the journal, <I>Zdr&oacute;j</I> (<I>The Source</I>), published in PoznaD between 1917 and 1922, courtesy of the Slavic and Baltic Division of the New York Public Library. <H3><IMG SRC="jas.gif" ALT="[IMAGE: Capitalist's Head on a Platter]">The Ball of the Mannequins</H3> These <A HREF="jas5.htm"><B>eight images</B></A> accompany the text of Bruno JasieDski's futurist-proletarian drama, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMannequins-Ball-Polish-European-Archive%2Fdp%2F9057550520%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1207077589%26sr%3D8-1&tag=davagol-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325"><B><I>The Ball of the Mannequins</I></B></a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=davagol-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />, as it appeared in the Soviet journal, <I>Literature of the World Revolution</I>, in 1931. Images appear courtesy of the Slavic and Baltic Division of the New York Public Library. <P> <H2><IMG SRC="warsaw.gif" ALT="[IMAGE: Warsaw]">Traveling to Poland?</H2> Several culturally-inclined friends have asked me for advice about what to read before visiting Poland. <A HREF="travel.htm"><B>Here is a guide to books that would be of interest to travelers to Poland</B></A>, and to virtual travelers journeying to a Poland of the mind. I haven't had a chance to update this recently, but people still ask me, and many of these texts are still classics. <P> <IMG SRC="rule.gif" ALT="________________________________________"> <P> Last updated November 11, 2012. 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