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Śródziemnomorskie kody polskości w twórczości Jana Parandowskiego
2018
One is used to regarding Jan Parandowski (1895–1978) as a great connoisseur of the ancient world and a kind of “Olympic” writer with a distance to his own time and space. A thorough examination of his literary essays, short stories and novels hardly proves this opinion. Treating Polish history and culture, especially of the Renaissance epoch, as originating from and inspired by the ancient Roman/Greek tradition (“Poland is situated in the Mediterranean”), he conceals at the same time an evidently emotional approach to national legacy. There are several modes in which he evokes unique Polish history in the 19th century, with the great but problematic heritage of Romanticism as well as the co…
Podróż w dalekie lata ("Zegar słoneczny" (1953) Jana Parandowskiego)
2015
Zegar słoneczny [trans. Th e Sundial] by Parandowski is a collection of 13 short-stories loosely based on the author’s memories of childhood and early youth spent in a Lvov school. Written in a chatty and humorous manner, with a touch of lyricism, the stories assume a form of a sentimental recollection of a journey to distant years. Lyrical phrasing, careful choice of words, and poetic images hint at the artistic profession of the author. Because of these qualities the work becomes coherent in terms of semantics and composition. Th e narrator travels through his life in all possible directions and between many diff erent planes (apartment in Lvov, neighborhood of the family house, urban are…