a prayer of the sentenced to death

Stanislaw Barszczak, I swim in a pool of inspiration (a prayer of the sentenced to death)

I live in the Republic of Poland, where thinkers are considered to be of little value. My new book “Telling with a man” has just been published. An author I love comes out a new book.  As an author, how does it feel? I’m more excited than my readers. Every time I finish a novel I read it over, thinking, “Could I have written this some other way? Maybe I should have done this differently here, or maybe there…” The only time I didn’t feel that way was with my youth. What made I decide on this genre? I wanted to try it. If you’re a musician, your life experiences are reflected in your music, and of you’re lyricist, then they’re reflected in your lyrics. I’m a essayist, and I had to find some outlet for some of the events that have occurred in recent years that have truly made me feel very uncomfortable. Yesterday I still was in Kuwait, Istambul i Vienna airport. I’ve visited 55th country of my life. In November 2015 I went to Kuwait to see the Rewerend Monsignore in Apostolic Nunciature at Yarmouk. But I saw „the first May” on the Kuwait City (in the beginning of the month of May each year the great feast of the workers was, there were beautiful manifestation of the peace on the entire world, this scene as a place was declined in the world of PostSovjetUnion), lovely weather was, I found the scene of my joyful childhood there. A teraz przystępuje do napisania wstępu-komentarza do mojej książki w języku niemieckim. But the “Republic of my childhood” in the book isn’t Poland, it’s entirely fictional. To make sure that nobody would try and make any such comparison. Did I have fun writing this book? I really did, but I always have a lot of fun when I’m writing. Then, in the book, I used the sunset of the sun as a metaphor, for example. I care deeply about environmental issues. I here think we’ve caused a great deal of damage to nature and that she’ll seek her revenge against us. That’s why I chose this or another metaphor. At the same, people living in a dictatorship live in the shivering cold, even if they’re on the sun. I wanted to convey this sense of existing on a cold, chilling, unnatural landscape. Which part of the book affected me the most when I wrote it? First of all, I should tell you that there’s only one allusion in the entire book, and it is intentional. Writing it was such a deeply emotional experience I felt as if I were living through it. It’s a funeral scene, and to capture that funerary atmosphere I drew on the way I felt when I attended Mom’s funeral. Remembering and commemorating her in this way was very moving. There is a tale of my author there titled “Napoleon’s playing”. I think the most difficult one in terms of plot was this tale one, because I was writing the story of someone who was gay. Obviously in my childhood I had friends who are gay, but I wasn’t quite sure how I could portray their world. But the more I got to know them, the more I realized they’re really no different in the way they experience relationships. There’s love, and jealousy, and passion. I live in the country, in which a writing for this land the biggest passion of mine is and will be always. When I started out, I had no idea what I was going to write, but there’s this thing I experience when I start writing, it’s as if I connect to a different channel, from where information flows and ends up as words at my fingertips, carrying me away, autorka z Turcji, Ayse Kulin said. I never have trouble finding inspiration, I swim in a pool of inspiration. What are my travel habits? I travel a lot. The book is also telling about my journey to the world. Of course, there are places in the world I haven’t seen yet, but I’ve been to Ivory Coast, Argentina (South America, yes), Brazil (south Brazil, but I haven’t been to, although perhaps I’ve neglected Central Amazonia), Australia, Singapore, India, where my friend used to live, and all the European countries, and I’ve lived in the Republic of Poland. I’ve been to both the east and west coasts of the United States, but  I’ve never been to RPA and I would really love to go. I can safely say that there’s no corner of Poland. Which country, city or place has affected me the most? Chicago has influenced me a lot. I felt like I belonged there. I saw a people, they were very poor but also proud and honourable. Once day I went to the „arystocracy.” But the people poor, they reminded me of the Bosnians, because the Bosnians have also suffered a lot as a people. They came out of a terrible war with their heads held high. Czeslaw Milosz’s  Nobel Prize opened the door for a lot polish writers. It’s great for the parents to be there, also for children to be taken to book fairs and to be exposed to lots of books there. All the international trends are here as well, and you can find a book by a Polish writer on whatever subject you’re looking for. I think being a writer in Poland is a wonderful, varied affair. My colleagues are riding to the hospital now, I continue my journey to the world. I couldn’t believe how well the therapy had worked. There is like a breathing. This way I breath better, it’s says a lot about me. When I learn to breath on the situation of the world, that one I would like be with, I learn to consciously achieve a clarity of mind and accept everything that life throws at me. Such a breathing increases the level  of oxygen in the blood, strengthens the immune system and improves mental health. We become aware of a plurality, foregoing the ‘you’ and ‘I’. People start to understand that everything is a reflection of themselves.  They stop blaming others and undergo a true transformation. They take over the reins of their own lives. And they eat seafood as well as raw food now. Will following a raw food diet provide us with all the protein, calcium and iron we need. Today what are we gonna do tonight? After three nights in Oslo, for example, we came to the conclusion that this particular European city is not big on the dance-until-morning scene… You see. I was watching television and a film titled „Passchendale”(2015). It’s only the better world will save us. In Europa with the pope Francis we are happy now, but if we are better at the same time? “After the war I will love you more and more, I will love you always, for ever more and more,” the singer had sung. North France, I Word War. The German crucified Dawid, and his brother is taking him to his “Canadian”army back. Symbol of defending freedom, rescue to the world in which we live on the other sides of the nations. Once day I begun my life in the war, I would say. In these difficult times I had a pony, sometimes Zenon’s pony, this one’s of my friend who was a painter. But the third month of the war is beginning. It’s rainy here…Where is a rescue to a man of today? A prayer. There is no speech in my country. I was brought up in the religion house. But my sentiment is often offended now. Weakly will. In the informating age there is enormal difference between capability to do something and doing that. You should live! Though, my journey to Kuwait was a heroic act. There is given choice in my country of freedom which is a apt now. But as a promising storyteller I do not have enough money. On growing up catholic I am keeping silent, sentenced on the  civilization death, to put me to real death. I’m writing of the democracy and sentiments yet. Idea of a crowd in my writing subject is very strong. But I expose my identification personal through the opposition only. Violent intimidating, thread speech now. Freedom is ‘invisible,’ John Kennedy said. Free speech but must exist. My dear Readers. „Kill a man,” the sacred text mentioned. Objecting offence. Personally I speak on any space only, but not to the citizens of the whole world, and my country. Weakness of the free speech now. Position must be, free speech, Salman Rushdie said. Though such a situation may be completely illogical and unpredictable.

 

 

 

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