Literary Galicia: From Post-War to Post-Modern: A Local Guide to the Global Imagination

Adam Michajlow; Waldemar Paclawski

ISBN 10: 8385158324 / ISBN 13: 9788385158325

Published by Oficyna Literacka, Cracow, Poland, 1991

About this Item

Scarce paperback, 190 pages, translated from the Polish, NOT ex-library. Half-title page signed & inscribed by one of the Authors. Interior is age-toned, clean, with unmarked text, free of stamps; some offset marks here and there. Good secure binding. Covers show rubbing to edges, numerous light creases, shelfworn marks. A barcode sticker on the back. -- Contents: Genius Loci / Jan Jozef Szczepanski; Introduction: Galizien and Galicja / Emil Brix; 1. Thinking the Thing: Literary Galicia -- Realities of the Certain Past / Igor Styn; Postwar Galicia: Stories in History / Waldemar Paclawski; Pain of Experiencing the World Every Day / Jan Stasica; Great Silence of the Black Hole: Literature in the Face of Communism / Stanislaw Balbus; Cultural Identity and Cosmopolitan Self: Between the Ivory Tower of Ethnocentrism and the Swamp of Relativism / Slawomir Kapralski; From Arcadia to Europe: Tracing the Myth / Waldemar Paclawski; Nowa Huta Soul's Project / Jerzy Lewinski; Rome's Little Sister of Pure Polish Stock / Izabela Sariusz-Skapska; Spirit Which No Longer Exists / Henryk Halkowski; Once upon a Time. in Cracow / Przemyslaw Cwiklinski; Farce Empire Style / Jacek Ziarno; After-Word: And What Would You Care for? / Adam Michajlow; 2. Personages: Galicia Literary [Cracow writers in (fragments of) interviews, statements and critical sketches] -- Kazimierz Wyka; Adam Polewka; Tadeusz Holuj; Wladyslaw Machejek; Hanna Malewska; Jan Jozef Szczepanski; Jerzy Turowicz; Jacek Wozniakowski; Stanislaw Lem; Karol Wojtyla (John Paul II); Kornel Filipowicz; Wislawa Szymborska; Henryk Markiewicz; Wlodzimierz Maciag; Jerzy Kwiatkowski; Andrzej Kijowski; Ludwik Flaszen; Tadeusz Nowak; Slawomir Mrozek; Tadeusz Chrzanowski; Jan Blonski; Wieslaw Pawel Szymanski; Jerzy Harasymowicz; Andrzej Bursa; Ewa Lipska; Adam Zagajewski; Julian Kornhauser; Tadeusz Nyczek; Jerzy Pilch; Bronislaw Maj; Jan Polkowski; Marcin Swietlicki; Krzysztof Koehler]; 3. Things and Persons: Postindustrial Galicia -- Cracow Industrial Society for a New Economic Order / Grzegorz Luczkiewicz; Professor Makes His Way to the Lecture Hall / A.M.; Know Local Environment and Act Globally / Bozena Pietras.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Literary Galicia: From Post-War to Post-Modern: A Local Guide to the Global Imagination
• Publisher: Oficyna Literacka, Cracow, Poland
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8385158324
• ISBN 13: 9788385158325
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)