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)”
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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)”
RKS POLISH Literature: The Incessant Polish Rain (Władysław Reymont)
A grey pall of rain shrouded the whole world and drank the colours dry, smothering the light and submerging the earth in shadow, so that everything seemed like the delirium of a dream, and sadness rose from the stagnant fields, from the torpid forest, from the lifeless wastes, and slouched heavily in a thick cloud.Continue reading “RKS POLISH Literature: The Incessant Polish Rain (Władysław Reymont)”
RKS POLISH Literature: Remember You Are but a Farmhand and Never Will You be a Farmer! (The clever kulak’s attempt to keep wages down) (Władysław Reymont)
And the reverend teaches that elders are to be respected. Each has his own different place and to each the Lord Jesus has allotted it. The Lord has allotted yours too, so mind it and do not cross the line. Don’t push your way to the first place and don’t raise yourself above the rest-forContinue reading “RKS POLISH Literature: Remember You Are but a Farmhand and Never Will You be a Farmer! (The clever kulak’s attempt to keep wages down) (Władysław Reymont)”
RKS POLISH Literature: Calling on the Lord with Sighs and Cries for Mercy (Władysław Reymont)
The priest mounted the pulpit, and everyone raised their heads and gazed at him in his white surplice as he leaned over the people and read the Gospel. In the light and colours flowing over him from the windows, he looked like an angel floating on a rainbow. The priest spoke long and fiercely soContinue reading “RKS POLISH Literature: Calling on the Lord with Sighs and Cries for Mercy (Władysław Reymont)”
RKS POLISH Literature: The Old Man, a Young Lass and the Devil (Władysław Reymont)
‘When an old man takes a young lass, the devil rejoices, for he’ll be the one to profit,’ declared the old beggar sagely, scraping the bottom of his bowl loudly. Władysław Reymont, “The Peasants”, 1909 Photo: R. Kennedy Stephen
RKS POLISH Literature: A Curmudgeon and a Shrew But What Cabbage and Peas! (Władysław Reymont)
‘God rest her that I think on of an evening; now that were a wife, a proper housekeeper! Aye, a curmudgeon maybe, and a shrew, never a good word for anyone and always at loggerheads with the other women…but a wife and a housekeeper!’ And here he sighed piously in her memory, and even greaterContinue reading “RKS POLISH Literature: A Curmudgeon and a Shrew But What Cabbage and Peas! (Władysław Reymont)”
RKS African Literature: Kenyan Women as Tourist Attractions (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)
The abilities and potential of our women are enslaved to the typewriter, the bar or the beds in those hotels we have put up in every corner of the country for the pleasure of tourists. How insulting to our national dignity that our women should have become mere flowers to decorate the beds of foreignContinue reading “RKS African Literature: Kenyan Women as Tourist Attractions (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)”
