The psychological conditions of the protagonist of Noce i dnie as depicted in literary criticism are in line with bovarysme. An instance of this similitude is the state of disillusionment, caused by a clash of imagery and ...

The existing biographical knowledge concerning Jan Gadomski in many cases turned out to be incorrect or inaccurate. Query in the archives allowed for new arrangements to be made. The article presents unknown biographical ...

The biodata of Maria Ilnicka, known predominantly as the editor of “Bluszcz”, is deeply flawed and imprecise, due to faulty archive research and a superficial approach to certain aspects. One issue that has not been ...

Polish Livonia was the little homeland of Boleslaw Limanowski, a socialist and a popular political activist. The author reminisces about it in his Memoirs and in his correspondence reviving the past – both private and the ...

Michael Borch was an author of some important works describing Polish Inflanty (Latgale). In his books, he presented the history and legends of the region, according to the didactic rules required during this period. ...

There is more to the literary polemic between the author of The Doll and the creator of The Trilogy than merely Prus’ contradictory review of Sienkiewicz’s With Fire and Sword. It also includes The Doll’s multifarious ...

In literary studies, Judym, the protagonist of Ludzie bezdomni, is usually treated as a social activist fixated on the mission to improve the world. However, such interpretation is not exhaustive because the character’s ...

Father Jordan's Memoirs, a novel by the 19th century Polish Inflanty writer Kazimierz Bujnicki, an exemplar of a nobleman’s epic about the Polish province of yore, discloses a number of stereotypes that characterise ...

Piotr Medeksza was a publisher of popular antology (a lot of subscribers), containing among others the poems of sentimentalist Jan Onoszko. Medeksza was a student of Joachim Lelewel, a contemporary of Stanislaw Morawski; ...

Piknik pod Wiszącą Skałą, napisana w poł. lat sześćdziesiątych powieść Joan Lindsay, jest w Australii dziełem kultowym o wielu interpretacjach. Jedną z nich jest adaptacja filmowa Petera Weira, która – zwłaszcza dla odbiorcy ...