Beauty and the NovelPrzemysław CzaplińskiWhich novels of the nineties are the most beautiful? The ones that have a story to tell: long, extensive novels, written with verve, born out of epic intentions, and referring to the epic tradition. But there is also something to be said for novels that appeal to the aesthetics of beauty. (...)
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Between the Gentry Raconte and Classical DistanceMichał Paweł MarkowskiCzeslaw Milosz once wrote: 'It so happened that two people who had spent their childhoods in the years before the First World War proceeded like gardeners crossing two previously alien strains of vegetation: they grafted the old noble raconte with humanist erudition and obtained what is usually referred to as the (...)
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Books of the Highway, Stones of VeniceAndrzej Stanislaw KowalczykBrilliant careers are not exclusive to human beings; a literary genre can have one too. A hundred years ago, the essay was a rare and exotic phenomenon within Polish literature. Although the first Polish essays appeared as early as the 17th century, it was not until the 20th century that the (...)
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Contemporary Polish Women's ProseAgnieszka KosinskaLiterary scholars, critics and readers all agree that women dominate contemporary Polish prose.
Being a woman writer in today's Poland still means something completely different from being a male writer, but it also means something completely different from being a woman writer twenty years ago. In remarks to Wislawa Szymborska when she (...)
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Great Stories in Everyday LifeTadeusz PióroTwentieth-century Polish literature was privileged by history in a special way. The story of our country in the century that has just ended is an inexhaustible source of national, social, and personal experience that guarantees literary works a lasting and authentic grounding in historical reality. This is even more true of (...)
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There are more than 31,000 publishers registered in Poland. However, the market is highly concentrated. The 300 largest publishing firms still hold almost 98 per cent of it. More »
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