Ideał zwykłego życia. O wspomnieniach Andrzeja Rocha Świętochowskiego
A Paragon of Ordinary Life. On Andrzej Roch Świętochowski’s Memoirs

Author(s): Eliza Kącka
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: The Main School; self-help; intellectual; social worker; ordinary life
Summary/Abstract: The history of Polish universities is a history of a broken tradition. That is why the obligation to preserve memories and live for ideals applied to their graduates. One of them – and more specifically: one of the representatives of the Main School generation – was Aleksander Roch Świętochowski. As a writer or thinker, he cannot be accorded a lofty position. According to Samuel Smiles, however, Świętochowski treated his “life without events” as part of his self-education project. The article contains the interpretation of Świętochowski’s work: “Moje wspomnienia” (“Mymemoirs”).

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