Member: franek

Hi. I'm searching for an English version of Konrad Wallenrod. I have this masterpiece in polish and in Spanish. By the way, it would be interesting for me to have some version written on prose.

Have you any of those versions or some related information?

Thanks.

posted by centorras at 7:23 am (EST) on Jan 14, 2008

The other one! I really must stop cataloguing and re-read Stanley Price

posted by Gateaupain at 8:45 am (EST) on Jun 28, 2007

Yes, same edition, but mine seems to have a homemade cloth cover (top half red flowers on a white background, bottom half red-and-white flowers on a red background) pasted onto it, with a rectangle containing the original black-on-red title pasted onto that. I ordered it online after reading about the sonnets somewhere; it's more romantic to happen upon it in one of those dusty old bookstores with the befedora'd shopkeeper, and I miss those moments of serendipity, but I've decided I am willing to sacrifice that for the incredible convenience of being able to order just about anything you could want for a reasonable price and have it show up on your doorstep a few days later.

I really don't understand why Irwin isn't better known; of course it's minor verse, but the guy has Frost's natural feel for English pentameter -- every line shapes itself gracefully in the mouth and carries you on to the next. Who could not want to read the rest of a poem that starts "Woman, you are indeed a false alarm"?

posted by languagehat at 3:37 pm (EST) on Jan 29, 2007

I can't believe someone else has The love sonnets of a hoodlum!

posted by languagehat at 11:58 am (EST) on Jan 25, 2007

You're the only other person here who's got Tyrmand's Zly!

posted by BloodyChiclitz at 11:35 am (EST) on Dec 22, 2006

I'm amazed to see, as I sit here in Ottawa, Canada, that I have more books tagged 'new zealand' than any other subscriber.

My connections to New Zealand are limited to:-

i) one Kiwi cousin in Ophir, Central Otago;

ii) Cameron Thomas Brown my shipmate (bo'sun) on a Polish ship in WWII, a New Zealander who was awarded the Polish Cross of Valour;

iii) three visits to that wonderful country.

posted by franek at 7:22 pm (EST) on Aug 31, 2006