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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.  Unfortunately, not all of these files have Polish diacritics or cyrillic text yet.  You may also find a list below of <A HREF="#[upcoming talks]"><b>upcoming lectures and talks</b></a>.<P>
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<H2>Selected Recent Publications <iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=davagol-20&o=1&p=41&l=ur1&category=books&banner=0VRTHA8E5847SQVT7982&f=ifr" width="88" height="31" scrolling="no" border="0" marginwidth="0" style="border:none;" frameborder="0"></iframe></H2>

<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>

<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. Bożena 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>

<A NAME="[upcoming talks]"></A><H2>Current and Upcoming Lectures and Talks</H2>
I will try to update these as I have more specific information about the time and location of each event.
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<li>December 29, 2009, 8:30–9:45 a.m., Washington C, Loews.  "Witkacy’s <i>Shoemakers</i> as High Anti-Stalinism."  Panel 379--"Cultural Tectonics:  Reading Beneath the Surface of the 1930s." <a href="http://www.mla.org/convention"><b>MLA Convention</b><a>, Philadelphia.

<li>February 25-26, 2010.  "Witkacy and the Sublime:  The Dominant Woman Reconsidered."  <a href="http://www.witkacy2010.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10&Itemid=2"><b><i>Witkacy: 21st Century Perspectives</i></b></a>, <a href="http://nationalpolishcenter.org/"><b>National Polish Center</b></a>, Washington, D.C.

<li>April 1-4, 2010.  "<I>Fircyk</I>:  The Overdressed Pole from the Renaissance to the Cold War."  Seminar:  "Clothing: Re-Creating Our Own Image in a World of Mass Production." <a href="http://www.acla.org"><B>ACLA</B></a>, New Orleans.

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<H2>Current and Future Classes</H2>
I am not teaching for the Fall 2009 semester, but for a list of courses I have taught, go to <A HREF="vitae.htm#[syllabi]"><B>Syllabi</B></A>.<P>

<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 Poznan 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 Jasienski'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.
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<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.
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Last updated December 14, 2009.  If you have any suggestions or comments on this page or anything in this archive, please <A HREF="mailto:davidagoldfarb@gmail.com"><B>e-mail me</B></A>.<P>

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