HB, naprędce
HB, Briefly

Summary/Abstract: “Henryk Bereza had a hard life, full of obstacles and anguish. A happy life” – this is the way in which the author (and one of the few friends, to cite his words) of recollections about Henryk Bereza ended his text. He described the beginnings of Bereza’s literary “school” or “stable”, his Warsaw patriotism (Bereza did not leave the Polish capital for years), his resignation from a university career for the sake of freedom and independence in searching for a writer’s path, and his rebellion and declaration of an “artistic revolution” ideally interlocked with the peasant current in Polish literature. All those features were the reason why Bereza became the target of numerous attacks launched by academic Polish philologists (some being his former fellow students) who after his death issued a declaration claiming that his literary output was devoid of all value and unworthy of publication.

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