“The Short Story in a Polish Context,” edited by Oscar Swan, professor and advisor for Polish Studies minor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature (PIASA Books, 2024)
An anthology that shows how the short-fiction genre evolved in Poland, “The Short Story in a Polish Context” contains selections belonging to the Polish short-story canon throughout the ages. A variety of Poland’s best-known authors and interesting themes have been chosen. Several of the stories appear here in English for the first time in Oscar Swan’s translations; others have been translated by other well-known literary translators of Polish. Swan’s commentaries on the stories give the reader historical context as well as providing insight into linguistic and cultural aspects that might otherwise elude the non-Polish-speaking reader.
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