Vol. 9 No. 1 (2017): Games Worth the Candle. Presentations: Donat Kirsch

In the issue’s main section, we present essays and articles concerned with game studies. Krzysztof M. Maj, Michał Kłosiński, Sven Dwulecki, Arras Khadeli, and Miłosz Piotrowiak, among other scholars, address the topics of virtual worlds, transmedial narration, and the reality of terror and war as filtered through the medium of the game. The main subject of the “Presentations” section is Polish author Donat Kirsch, interviewed by Andrzej Śnioszek. We publish ample excerpts from Kirsch’s fiction. The issue is completed by the sections “Reviews and Discussions”, “Varia” (featuring essays on the poetry of Halina Poświatowska and the fiction of Dorota Masłowska) and “Archives”, where the reader will find an interview between Teodor Parnicki and Stefan Szlachtycz, the director of the 1976 film adaptation of Parnicki’s novel Tylko Beatrycze (Only Beatrice). The transcript of the interview and its editing was provided by Polish philology students as a project for a course in text criticism and the preparation of critical editions conducted by Piotr Gorliński-Kucik.