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Public Responsibilities |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Zdzislaw Najder |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1988 |
| Size: 1,985 Words, 12,372 Characters |
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TERM OF OFFICE
Jan Jozef Szczepanski
Published by the Polish underground press
Cracow: Oficyna Literacka, 1986
DOMESTIC DISGRACE
Jacek Trznadel
Published by the Polish underground press
Paris: Instytut Literacki, 1986
For the last ten years, Poland has had two book markets: one official, one underground. Although the former is incomparably bigger, both in the number of titles and copies printed, the latter has tremendous cultural importance and moral prestige.
The difference between the two is simple and basic: Books published on the official market have to pass state censorship; the others do not. The very existence and evident success of the underground publishing houses has changed the literary atmosphere in Poland. Those who do not wish to have their texts censored now have a choice of publishing out of the reach of party-controlled officialdom. And, to limit the attractiveness of the unofficial competition--the government had to relax censorship rules to an extent previously never considered. This applies, of course, not only to fiction and poetry but also, perhaps to a greater degree, to historical and sociological scholarship.
Term of Office
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...panski had unquestionably become a moral authority, both as a man and as a writer. That year a congress of the Polish Writers' Union elected him president by the greatest majority in the history of the association. A few months later he signed a cooperation agreement between the writer's union and Solidarity. Now his Term of Office epitomizes the role of writers in Polish culture and society.
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