The Boarding House

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Piotr Paziński | Artist | Culture.pl

Author of two novels – Pensjonat (2010) and Ptasie ulice (2013) – a Joyce scholar, and editor-in-chief of the journal Midrasz

Read about Piotr on Culture.pl

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A chapter from The Boarding House in The Vassar Review

You can now read a chapter from Piotr Pazinski’s The Boarding House in the 2016 | TRAUMA & TRÄUME issue of The Vassar Review.

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Piotr Pazinski and Tusia Dabrowska visiting Srodborow near Otwock visiting the Boarding House together.

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(from left to right: Tusia, Piotr and Agi Legutko)

An evening with Piotr Pazinski at the Kosciuszko Foundation in NY (Nov. 2014).

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To read more about the event in Polish, go here, and a detailed description with schedule in English is here.

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European Union Prize for Literature 2012: Interview with Piotr Paziński, Poland

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Read a short summary of The Boarding House as well as my translation of an excerpt from the book on the European Union Prize for Literature website. And congratulations to Piotr for winning this prestigious award!

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The Return: A documentary about being young and Jewish in Poland

The Return, a documentary by Adam Zucker, focuses on 4 young women. Tusia is one of them. In the film, among other things, Tusia and Piotr travel together to the Boarding House.

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I was raised in Warsaw as a Catholic Pole. Today I have embraced my Jewish identity.

Tusia writing about her own Jewish family and growing up in Poland. This personal essay was published on Aish.com in support of the Kickstarter campaign for Adam Zucker’s The Return.

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BAD WRITERS

Tusia celebrating with Piotr his Paszport Polityki. Photo by Judyta Nekanda-Trepka.

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'The Boarding House'

In the beginning, there were train tracks. In the greenery, between heaven and earth. With stations, like beads on a string, placed tightly so that even before the train managed to accelerate, it had to slow down before the following stop. Platforms made of concrete, narrow and shaky, equipped with ladders and steep steps, grew straight out of sand, as though built on dunes. The stations’ pavilions bore resemblance to old-fashioned kiosks: elongated, bent awnings, azure letters on both ends, which appeared to float on air.I’ve always enjoyed peering at them, beginning with the first station outside the strict limits of the city, when the closely knit urban architecture quickly disperses and the world expands to an uncanny size.

English translation of the Prologue 

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Nagroda za powieść „Pensjonat” – debiut, który przekonuje, jak mocno i ciekawie brzmi głos trzeciego pokolenia po Holokauście.

Piotr Pazinski wins Paszport Polityki, an annual prestigious Polish award presented by the weekly magazine Polityka since 1993.