Sto lat!
Hundred years!

Author(s): Piotr Nowak
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Sociology, Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: God; Honor; Fatherland; Baczyński; self-destruction
Summary/Abstract: Culture in Poland is the „ground” and all highest values are grounded in it, which was testified by a number of historical events. First of all, it is over one hundred and twenty years of geographical and political non-existence the Poles endured thanks to the highest culture, thanks to the works of the world’s greatest poets. Polish Poets are the greatest of the greatest and – therefore – completely untranslatable, which means – peculiar and national. They are extremly important for us, Poles, and urgently needed, indispensable. At the same time, Polish poetry has always bordered on self-destruction. The Holy Trinity „God, Honor, Homeland” demanded from poetry to be a victim (Polish Romanticism). Let’s wish her another hundred years!

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