Bienczyk, Marek

Marek Bienczyk is the critically-acclaimed author of "Terminal, "a novel, and of several collections of essays and literary criticism, most recently "The Eyes of Durer: On Romantic Melancholy. "A noted wine critic and expert on French culture, he is also a prolific translator of Milan Kundera and Roland Barthes, among others. He teaches in the Institute of Literary Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences and lives in Warsaw.
Benjamin Paloff is a poetry editor for "Boston Review "and Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature at the University of...