Dorota Maslowska at the Ohio State University, Friday, October 8

[Jessie Labov]

For any list members in the Midwest who might want to join us in Columbus at 
the end of this week:


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An Evening with Dorota Maslowska
Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio
Friday October 8, 2010

4pm     Roundtable featuring Maslowska and Benjamin Paloff, moderated by 
Jessie Labov (Slavic)
Mendenhall Lab 100

This fall OSU welcomes one of the most exciting figures of contemporary 
Polish literature and culture, author Dorota Maslowska. Winner of the 2006 
Polish NIKE literary award for her novel _Paw krolowej_ (The Queen’s 
Peacock), she is best known in Poland and abroad for her debut novel _Wojna 
polsko-ruska pod flagą biało-czerwoną_ (literally “Polish-Russian war under a 
white-red flag,” translated as “Snow White and Russian Red” in the U.S.), 
which has already been adapted for both film and theater. Her two plays, 
"Two Poor Polish-Speaking Romanians" (2006), slated for a staging at the 
Abrons Arts Center in New York in 2011, and "No Matter How Hard We Tried" 
(2009), have been performed to critical acclaim in Poland, Moscow, Berlin, 
Stockholm, Prague, and London. Benjamin Paloff is Assistant Professor of 
Polish Literature at University of Michigan as well as Maslowska’s English-
language translator.

We will discuss Maslowska’s first novel, _Snow White and Russian Red_, 
Paloff’s translation, Maslowska’s more recent work, and the adaptation of her 
novel to the stage and screen.

6pm     Reception, Hagerty Hall Terrace (Crane Café in case of rain)

7pm     Film screening, Snow White and Russian Red*    

*attention: this film contains graphic content and might not be appropriate for 
all audiences*

Hagerty Hall 180
Featuring a short introduction to the film and a Q&A with Maslowska 
afterwards.

Snow White and Russian Red (Wojna polsko-ruska), Poland 2009, 108 min.
Written and directed by Xawery Zulawski
Based on the novel by Dorota Maslowska
Cast: Borys Szyc, Roma Gasiorowska, Sonia Bohosiewicz, Maria Strzelecka, 
Magdalena Czerwinska, Ewa Kasprzyk, Dorota Maslowska.

Silny is a man with no past and no future living only in the present. The only 
thing he knows is that the love of his life, Magda, has left him. In his 
permanent state of speed-altered consciousness he envisions a war between 
Poles and the Russians.

“With its staccato stream-of-consciousness narration - imagine early Bret 
Easton Ellis stuffed through a meat grinder and served with generous helping 
of nihilistic, post-1989 angst - ‘Snow White’ hit a nerve not only with the Polish 
ADD generation it describes but also with the local literati. Author Dorota 
Maslowska, who wrote the novel when she was 18, sketched a portrait of her 
peers being sucked into the void between a communist past they never knew 
and the garish excesses of Western capitalism of the present.”
- Boyd van Hoeij, Variety

You can read more about the author, the novel, and other Maslowska events 
around the US here:
http://www.polishculture-nyc.org/?eventId=1752

Sponsored by The Polish Cultural Institute in New York, The Polish Club at Ohio 
State University, the Center for Slavic and East European Studies, the 
Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, and Steve 
Habash & Jean Luczkowski. For more information contact Jessie Labov: 
labov.1 at osu.edu.

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