A Quest for the Trousseau: After Reading Andrzej Mencwel’s Toast na progu [Toast on the Threshold] Cover Image
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Wyprawa po skrzynię posażną. Po lekturze Toastu na progu Andrzeja Mencwela
A Quest for the Trousseau: After Reading Andrzej Mencwel’s Toast na progu [Toast on the Threshold]

Author(s): Małgorzata Litwinowicz-Droździel
Subject(s): Cultural history, Short Story, Polish Literature, Rural and urban sociology, Sociology of Culture
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: essay; biography; peasant culture; village; history of Polish culture; story;

Summary/Abstract: This article explores selected passages from Andrzej Mencwel’s autobiographical essay Toast na progu [Toast on the Threshold] in the context of recent literary and critical texts as well as artistic works that explore – and introduce to a broader public – the question of Polish culture’s peasant roots. Litwinowicz-Droździel focuses on the problems of civilization in Mencwel’s work and on his diagnoses regarding the current state of peasant culture.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 265-277
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish
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