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Will Poland Survive? |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Krzysztof Klopotowski |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1988 |
| Size: 2,087 Words, 12,835 Characters |
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POLISH TALKS IN SUMMER, 1983
Jaroslaw Marek Rymkiewicz
Published by the Polish underground press.
Paris: Instytut Literacki, 1984
Delegalized Solidarity confers cultural awards every year. Among the works that have been honored is a book by Jaroslaw Marek Rymkiewicz published in the underground press entitled Polish Talks in Summer, 1983 (Rozmowy polskie latem 1983 r).
Until he was fired from his job for political reasons, the author worked at the Polish Academy of Sciences. Although he is an academician, his style is not pedantic. He has written extensively on the outstanding Polish writers of the nineteenth century--the most important period in Polish literature--when the leading issues of modern Polish culture were formulated. Polish Talks in Summer, 1983 describes a kind of spiritual freedom that exists in Poland despite the crushing of Solidarity, the biggest social and national rebellion in the history of communism.
In the twentieth century, the eighties are the most difficult period for the Poles, with the exception of the five years of Nazi occupation. During the last two hundred years, those in which the country has been independent have been few: During half of this period, there was no Polish state, since Poland was partiti...
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... Polish Talks in Summer, 1983 records the consciousness of the Polish intellectual who is unreconciled to his political position but is still attempting to be reconciled to his existence. Rymkiewicz's book express the author's desire to possess literary talent appropriate to the historical moment. The author's unfulfilled dream of the spirit's might is a metaphor of contemporary Polish fate.
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