Polish literature thread

I'm currently learning Polish and was wondering if you could suggest anything worthwhile to me to read. On a side note, why aren't Polish authors being talked about on this board? Seems like they've got at least 5 Nobel Prize winners.

Poland in general is a fantastically underrated country. What inspired you to learn Polish might I ask? I picked up a bit before when I dated a Polish lady and travelled there a bit, very fun language but really difficult.

Joseph Conrad is definitely my favourite Polish author but I'm not sure about his Polish language stuff. Andrzej Stasiuk has a very good reputation might be worth checking out

Polish literature is amazing. Romanticist poetry and prose are surely great, Non-divine Comedy by Krasinski is easily a masterpiece but I'm not sure if it's within your reach, the language gets kinda hard. Newer stuff, and easier to read - obviously Lalka, by Prus (but I guess you've got that figured if he's on your pic rel), Sienkiewicz, then basically entire 20th century is worth reading - the poetry gets ridiculously good (Lesmian, Czechowicz, then Herbert, Miłosz), and the duo Schultz - Gombrowicz is the pinnacle of prose really. Also Witkacy. Wyspiański.
That's the tip of an iceberg basically.

Tadeusz Konwicki

>I'm currently learning Polish
Why? It's one of the most difficult and irrelevant languages out there.
>why aren't Polish authors being talked about on this board?
They are relevant only here in Poland, some of them maybe in the former Commonwealth, that is Lithuania, Belarus, etc. Only Lem has managed to become somewhat famous as far as I'm concerned.

Keep in mind that pretty much all the books here are high school tier, but that should be enough for now. Doing your own research about Polish culture, history, etc. would most definitely help.
Joseph Conrad might be an interesting start, since he's a Polish-English author. Obviously "The Doll" by Prus is a must. If you want to take a few steps back to Polish Romanticism you need to have a dictionary nearby, because translations are scarce. If that's not a problem, read "Dziady" by Mickiewicz and "Kordian" by Słowacki. If that's still not enough, then "Pan Tadeusz" by Mickiewicz, "Non-divine Comedy" by Krasiński and Norwid's poems should be enough. If you would like to reap and tear someone's guts then The Trilogy by Sienkiewicz is for you. For symbolism read "The Wedding" by Wyspiański. From the interwar period you should read "Ferdydurke" by Gombrowicz and "The Street of Crocodiles" by Schulz (bonus points for "The Hourglass Sanatorium", it's brilliant) and poems by Tuwim. For WW2 read Baczyński's poems and "Pamiętnik z powstania warszawskiego" by Białoszewski. Later it's Lem's territory, but I would also recommend "Tango" by Mrożek, my personal favorite.
Good luck OP

>Why? It's one of the most difficult and irrelevant languages out there.
>What inspired you to learn Polish might I ask?
I'm a Russian who plans on moving to Poland.

I would echo the recommendations for Bruno Schulz and Gombrowicz, both are fantastic. Another Polish oddity whom you might like is Bruno Jasieński. I Burn Paris is probably his best work.

Polish literature doesn't exist.

Conrad never wrote anything in Polish to my knowledge. In fact he really avoided his heritage like the plague, and he left the country basically as soon as he was able to as a teenager.

That being said if you want an interesting English language short story about Poland I would recommend Conrad's Prince Roman. It's a really cool historical fiction piece about Poland in the 1800's and the failed rebellion by the Poles against Russia.

don't read anything after 1989, it's shit