Jan Józef Lipski w Instytucie Badań Literackich. Część 2: Fragmenty biografii zawodowej (1961–1976)
Jan Józef Lipski at The Institute of Literary Studies. Part 2: Fragments of Professional Biography (1961–1976)

Summary/Abstract: Jan Józef Lipski is a legend in the community of The Institute of Literary Research: Warsaw insurrectionist, literary scholar, literary critic (from the beginning he wrote warmly about Herbert’s and Białoszewski’s literary debuts), editor (for example, in collaboration with his wife Maria, he published a selection of "Nowe Ateny" <"New Athens"> by priest Benedykt Chmielowski), and publisher (he worked for Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy Publishing House, and one of his achievement is, e.g. a renewed edition of "Ferdydurke" in the year 1956). For all his adult life he was related to the Institute of Literary Research. His biography as a Polish scholar suffered greatly from repression due to his oppositionist activity, which is worth recollecting. The present article is the second part of Lipski’s Institute biography. It presents his Polish studies life from the year 1961. The first part of the article was published in “Pamiętnik Literacki” (“Literary Memoir”) in the year 2014, issue 1: "Jan Józef Lipski at The Institute of Literary Research. The Early Years (1950–1961)".

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