Web of Stories - Life Stories of Remarkable People | Adam Zagajewski - Living my dream (18/50) @webofstories | Uploaded April 2019 | Updated October 2024, 9 hours ago.
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Adam Zagajewski (1945-2021) was a Polish poet, novelist, translator and essayist. He is considered as one of the leading poets of the Generation of '68 or the Polish New Wave (Polish: Nowa fala) and is one of Poland's most prominent contemporary poets. [Listener: Andrzej Wolski; date recorded: 2018]
TRANSCRIPT: I kept discovering new poets, I read philosophy, I read essays and again, this was neither at school nor at university because I didn't really get much out of my psychology course. But I spent time in libraries, in reading rooms, at home. I was living in student digs because my parents earned too much – my father, because my mother didn't work. By then, my father's financial situation had improved somewhat so I wasn't entitled to student accommodation so I never stayed in student halls of residence only in digs. Later, I was in a slightly better room, but it was also a private let.
And this idyll was also a time of jazz, jazz concerts, jazz sessions lasting until 2:00 o'clock in the morning. I would come back in the night to my digs, to my little room. It was a time of first loves which I won't talk about here. But it was an idyll, an idyll that I didn't know was happening, I didn't realise it was an idyll. I thought this was how it was meant to be but it was an idyll, an idyll of an early passion for poetry, for music and for my development.
To listen to more of Adam Zagajewski’s stories, go to the playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVV0r6CmEsFzyCHpawMfzZc5HzhP38Qz7
Adam Zagajewski (1945-2021) was a Polish poet, novelist, translator and essayist. He is considered as one of the leading poets of the Generation of '68 or the Polish New Wave (Polish: Nowa fala) and is one of Poland's most prominent contemporary poets. [Listener: Andrzej Wolski; date recorded: 2018]
TRANSCRIPT: I kept discovering new poets, I read philosophy, I read essays and again, this was neither at school nor at university because I didn't really get much out of my psychology course. But I spent time in libraries, in reading rooms, at home. I was living in student digs because my parents earned too much – my father, because my mother didn't work. By then, my father's financial situation had improved somewhat so I wasn't entitled to student accommodation so I never stayed in student halls of residence only in digs. Later, I was in a slightly better room, but it was also a private let.
And this idyll was also a time of jazz, jazz concerts, jazz sessions lasting until 2:00 o'clock in the morning. I would come back in the night to my digs, to my little room. It was a time of first loves which I won't talk about here. But it was an idyll, an idyll that I didn't know was happening, I didn't realise it was an idyll. I thought this was how it was meant to be but it was an idyll, an idyll of an early passion for poetry, for music and for my development.
