Mikołaj Grynberg and Sean Gasper Bye on Confidential at Columbia University

December 5, 2024
- 12:00 pm ET
Columbia University
Shulman Seminar Room, 1219 International Affairs Bldg 420 W 118th St, Fl 12,
New York NY

Join Columbia University's East Central European Center and the Harriman Institute for a conversation about the novel Confidential with author Mikołaj Grynberg and translator Sean Gasper Bye. This powerful novella is a darkly comic portrait of three generations of a Jewish family in today’s Poland, struggling to express their love for one another in the face of a past that cannot and will not be forgotten. A masterpiece of concision, Confidential tackles themes of memory and care, trauma and memory, as well as enduring anti-Semitism, with unforgettable power, emotional complexity.