The Parisian hairdresser plays a vital role in the life of a French woman. He not only dresses her hair, about which she is particularly fastidious, but he is an arbiter of fashion. He is her best critic and confessor in matters of love. The two hours that it takes to get one’s hair washed,Continue reading “RKS French Literature: The Role of a Parisian Hairdresser (Anaïs Nin)”
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RKS American Literature: Nineteen-Year-Old Low Class Polak Bruno Lefty Bicek Questioned for Murder by High Class Polak Captain Kozak (Nelson Algren)
He didn’t like this kid. This was a low-class Polak. He himself was a high-class Polak because his name was Adamovitch and not Adamowski. This sort of kid kept spoiling things for the high-class Polaks by always showing off instead of just being good citizens like the Irish. That was why the Irish ran CityContinue reading “RKS American Literature: Nineteen-Year-Old Low Class Polak Bruno Lefty Bicek Questioned for Murder by High Class Polak Captain Kozak (Nelson Algren)”
RKS POLISH Literature: Utterly Consumed by Illicit Love (Władysław Reymont)
She sat stiffly like the other women, looking at her prayer book, but she could not make out a single letter, not a page, nothing, for those sad eyes, sorrowful eyes, blazing flashing eyes, stood before her, shining like stars. They blotted out the entire world, so that she completely lost her head, was utterlyContinue reading “RKS POLISH Literature: Utterly Consumed by Illicit Love (Władysław Reymont)”
RKS American Literature: Convicted of Shoplifting (on a tipsy lark): Has Impulse Shattered This Man? (Conrad Aiken)
He sat down on the edge of his bed and thought of Chicago. He thought of his childhood there, the Lake Shore Drive, Winnetka, the trip to Niagara Falls with his mother. He could hear the Falls now; He remembered the Fourth of July on the boat; the crowded examination room at college; the timeContinue reading “RKS American Literature: Convicted of Shoplifting (on a tipsy lark): Has Impulse Shattered This Man? (Conrad Aiken)”
RKS POLISH Literature: But Why Not Marry a Fine Woman? (Władysław Reymont)
‘Not young for sure, but well enough, except that she were a little, bald, crooked and with gimlet eyes, but her face were smooth as a loaf nibbled by mice for a week or two, a fine woman, good. I got plenty of grub – eggs scrambled with sausage, vodka, lard, other tasty bites, andContinue reading “RKS POLISH Literature: But Why Not Marry a Fine Woman? (Władysław Reymont)”
RKS POLISH Literature: Winter Approaches the Village (Władysław Reymont)
Winter was approaching…… Still tussling with autumn, it rampaged, bellowing in the blue distances like a fierce and hungry beast, and who could say when it would trounce her and leap to savage up the world with its ice-cold fangs… Still fitful were the scatterings of pallid snow-autumn snow…. Bewildered days still came, blue sicklyContinue reading “RKS POLISH Literature: Winter Approaches the Village (Władysław Reymont)”
RKS POLISH Literature: Song of the Bridesmaids (Władysław Reymont)
The girl began to cry- Such a wedding did they give her, Four candles they lit for her, The organ they played to her. Did you think, O girl, that For you they’d always play a song? A little yesterday, a little today…. Then cry your whole life long Da dana! Cry your whole lifeContinue reading “RKS POLISH Literature: Song of the Bridesmaids (Władysław Reymont)”
RKS POLISH Literature: Death Claims All (Władysław Reymont)
‘God bless you, but mark also you are a little old, and everyone is mortal, for: Death is not choosy Today a man, tomorrow a sheep With equal scrutiny she’ll reap.’ ‘I’m strong; I’ll hold out another twenty years, never you fear!’ ‘And Fearless was eaten by wolves.’ Władysław Reymont, “The Peasants”, 1909 Photo: R.Continue reading “RKS POLISH Literature: Death Claims All (Władysław Reymont)”
RKS POLISH Literature: No Punishment for Thievery (Władysław Reymont)
Cause there’s no punishment for thievery. Ha, what’ll they do? Stick’em in jail, and give ‘em sommat to eat, where they’ll be nice and warm, pick up some tricks from their mates and when they let ‘em go they’ll be better thieves than ever after all that schoolin’. Władysław Reymont, “The Peasants”, 1909 Photo: R.Continue reading “RKS POLISH Literature: No Punishment for Thievery (Władysław Reymont)”
RKS POLISH Literature: Men are Like Hogs Sticking Snouts in Throughs! (Władysław Reymont)
‘If Dad don’t take a third wife!’ shouted Jagustynka, somewhere from the third strip. ‘Give over that they just buried their mother in spring,’ said Hanka, in a tone of alarm. ‘What does that bother a man. Every one of ’em’s like that hog: no matter how drunk, he’ll rush to stick his snout inContinue reading “RKS POLISH Literature: Men are Like Hogs Sticking Snouts in Throughs! (Władysław Reymont)”
