The Pigeon Fell Dumb. A Book for Laughter and Reminiscence by Dr. hab. Dorota Korwin-Piotrowska, a Professor at the Jagiellonian University, is a collection of humorous texts of most varied types: remakes of well-known works (from the Middle Ages to the present day), parodies of academic texts, short poems dedicated to common cold (a whole series), chocolate, or the Cracovian pigeon; prose fragments and absurd dramatic scenes. Most of the pieces have been written in the recent decades for the jubilees of Krakow's Polish philologists and literary scholars from the Jagiellonian University. The title of the collection is a pun on words that alludes to the name of the street where the Faculty of Polish Studies in Krakow is located (ulica Gołębia = Pigeon Street, hence the Pigeon). It is also as an allusion to two books by the Polish masters of satire and pure nonsense: Pegasus Rearing, or a Poetic Panopticum by Julian Tuwim (1958) and Pegasus Fell Dumb. Nonsense Poetry and Everyday Life: Introduction to a Private Theory of Genres by Stanislaw Barańczak (1995).
Dorota Korwin-Piotrowska, PhD, Professor at the Jagiellonian University – a graduate of the Polish Studies at the Jagiellonian University, a literary scholar, has worked at the Jagiellonian University for 3 decades. She is an author of serious and humorous poems, and recently also of absurd mini-dramas, which were staged by the Proscenium Theater in Krakow. She has published 9 books, including 5 academic monographs. Her work Eutoryka. Rzecz o dobrej (roz)mowie [Eutoric. On a Good Conversation] was one of the 5 books nominated in 2022 for The Memorial Prize of the First Rector of the University of Lodz Professor Tadeusz Kotarbiński for outstanding academic work in the humanities.
LanguagePolish
Title in EnglishThe Pigeon Fell Dumb. A Book for Laughter and Reminiscence