The Donation of Zofia Bobowicz to the Jagiellonian Library Cover Image

Dar Zofii Bobowicz dla Biblioteki Jagiellońskiej
The Donation of Zofia Bobowicz to the Jagiellonian Library

Author(s): Ewa Borsuk, Urszula Klatka
Subject(s): History
Published by: Biblioteka Jagiellońska
Keywords: Polish literature in France;gift for the Jagiellonian Library;Zofia Bobowicz;translations of Polish literature into French

Summary/Abstract: This article presents the collection of Zofia Bobowicz, which was donated to the Jagiellonian Library in 2014 and consists of the donor’s professional archive together with her private library. At the same time it presents a profile of this translator and publisher of Polish literature who was active as an émigré in Paris. The donation of i.a. 635 volumes, 71 issues of literary magazines and 68 manuscripts completes the holdings of the library with those French polonica which were not held by Polish national institutions in the second half of the twentieth century. Zofia Bobowicz’s translations from Polish into French as well as her work as a propagator of Polish literature in France are part of the heritage of the Polish émigré community in the twentieth century.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 67
  • Page Range: 229-239
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish
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