Nieznane fakty z biografii Jana Parandowskiego
Unknown Facts from Jan Parandowski’s Biography

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is a presentation of effects of research in Jan Parandowski’s biography carried out in Ukrainian and Polish archives. It is an attempt at answering the questions strictly connected with Parandowski’s still unexamined life history, especially those linked to the Lvov period of his life. The analysis scrutinizes a number of church and state documents; the writer’s memories are also verified while reaching for other witnesses’ relations. The papers preserved in Ukrainian archives allowed to explain a number of issues including such ones about which Parandowski himself remained silent or, when questioned for them, he effectively misguided the former scholars. The paper establishes, who the writer’s parents were, especially his father about whom Parandowski never mentioned though they lived under one roof for 25 years. The archive search query connected with exploration of written sources not only helped to figure out the threads of family relations, but also to interpret them in the social context. In this mode the paper also proves that the experience of the prewar Lvov multiethnicity and multiculturality coupled with the humanistic education of the Galician school exerted influence on the future writer’s development of interest. Owing to it, Parandowski’s biography’s hardly known fragment becomes accessible for the contemporary reader

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