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Roger Pulvers

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
332 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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The Bookshelf
Books from Tishani Doshi, Katherine Rundell, Roger Pulvers and David Nicholls

And he wrote a play called The Metaphysics of the Two-Headed Calf, set in Australia.

The Bookshelf
Books from Tishani Doshi, Katherine Rundell, Roger Pulvers and David Nicholls

And Act One, however, is set in New Guinea, Port Moresby.

The Bookshelf
Books from Tishani Doshi, Katherine Rundell, Roger Pulvers and David Nicholls

And I translated that play.

The Bookshelf
Books from Tishani Doshi, Katherine Rundell, Roger Pulvers and David Nicholls

And in fact, I directed it at the Pram Factory.

The Bookshelf
Books from Tishani Doshi, Katherine Rundell, Roger Pulvers and David Nicholls

I don't know, listeners of an older vintage would remember.

The Bookshelf
Books from Tishani Doshi, Katherine Rundell, Roger Pulvers and David Nicholls

Particularly those in Melbourne, yes, the APG, the Pram Factory.

The Bookshelf
Books from Tishani Doshi, Katherine Rundell, Roger Pulvers and David Nicholls

So that was the first production of a Vitekiewicz play in Australia.

The Bookshelf
Books from Tishani Doshi, Katherine Rundell, Roger Pulvers and David Nicholls

So there's Polish drama, but there's also Polish novels that I read, but some of them aren't translated, unfortunately, and Polish literature is just so amazing, so rich.

The Bookshelf
Books from Tishani Doshi, Katherine Rundell, Roger Pulvers and David Nicholls

It's the biggest one.

The Bookshelf
Books from Tishani Doshi, Katherine Rundell, Roger Pulvers and David Nicholls

It's the biggest one?

The Bookshelf
Books from Tishani Doshi, Katherine Rundell, Roger Pulvers and David Nicholls

Oh, yeah.

The Bookshelf
Books from Tishani Doshi, Katherine Rundell, Roger Pulvers and David Nicholls

Well, more than 50 years in Japan.

The Bookshelf
Books from Tishani Doshi, Katherine Rundell, Roger Pulvers and David Nicholls

But I didn't learn Japanese.

The Bookshelf
Books from Tishani Doshi, Katherine Rundell, Roger Pulvers and David Nicholls

I was in Poland.

The Bookshelf
Books from Tishani Doshi, Katherine Rundell, Roger Pulvers and David Nicholls

And if anybody's interested, I published some months ago an autobiography called The Unmaking of an American about becoming an Australian, giving up American citizenship.

The Bookshelf
Books from Tishani Doshi, Katherine Rundell, Roger Pulvers and David Nicholls

And in that, I describe this spy scandal that I was innocently involved in when I was in Poland.

The Bookshelf
Books from Tishani Doshi, Katherine Rundell, Roger Pulvers and David Nicholls

So I thought, well, I'll never be able to go back to Poland again.

The Bookshelf
Books from Tishani Doshi, Katherine Rundell, Roger Pulvers and David Nicholls

But I thought, what am I going to do?

The Bookshelf
Books from Tishani Doshi, Katherine Rundell, Roger Pulvers and David Nicholls

And I went back to the United States in May 1967.

The Bookshelf
Books from Tishani Doshi, Katherine Rundell, Roger Pulvers and David Nicholls

And I had lost my student deferment.