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Reymont's unpublished letters noted down in a special notebook of his called Marzenia (Dreams) are his juvenilia that lack much literary value, yet witness the future Nobel Prize laureate's struggles with poetry which would never become part of his work as he would find himself most skilled in writing prose. What is important in Reymont's letters, however, are the signatures of his personality, his characteristic style of expression and traces of his readings. The early lyrical texts reflect his emotional experiences from the time of writing and contain traces of the people he met, especially Wiktoria Słupska, the love of his youth, to whom the volume of poems was dedicated. Recalling these poems became a chance to reconstruct Reymont's biography from his stay in Warsaw at the time of his fascination with theatre and spending time with the Woliński family. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The thesis by Jan Baudouin de Courtenay published here is probably the oldest of the texts by the Polish linguist. The text was submitted in 1864 as a part of the logic and philosophy course taught at the Warsaw Main School by Henryk Struve. It clearly shows an attempt by the young researcher to embark on a scholarly path, which turns out to be far from the one Baudouin de Courtenay took later in his academic activity. The future linguist argues here in defence of linguistics as a so-called physical science (a natural skill, as he often calls it in his dissertation), thus contrasting it with philology and history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Can History and Philology Competently Address Their Tasks without a Close Connection with Philosophy, Namely Philosophy of History and Philosophy of Language? The thesis by Jan Baudouin de Courtenay published here is probably the oldest of the texts by the Polish linguist. The text was submitted in 1864 as a part of the logic and philosophy course taught at the Warsaw Main School by Henryk Struve. It clearly shows an attempt by the young researcher to embark on a scholarly path, which turns out to be far from the one Baudouin de Courtenay took later in his academic activity. The future linguist argues here in defence of linguistics as a so-called physical science (a natural skill, as he often calls it in his dissertation), thus contrasting it with philology and history.

Copyright of Ruch Literacki is the property of Polish Academy of Sciences and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

The thesis by Jan Baudouin de Courtenay published here is probably the oldest of the texts by the Polish linguist. The text was submitted in 1864 as a part of the logic and philosophy course taught at the Warsaw Main School by Henryk Struve. It clearly shows an attempt by the young researcher to embark on a scholarly path, which turns out to be far from the one Baudouin de Courtenay took later in his academic activity. The future linguist argues here in defence of linguistics as a so-called physical science (a natural skill, as he often calls it in his dissertation), thus contrasting it with philology and history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article was prompted by a joint declaration made on 28 September 2015 by the Archbishops of Cracow and Warsaw and the state authorities of the two cities that they would provide means for publishing project 'A Critical Edition of the Literary Works of Karol Wojtyła - John Paul II'. This decision, marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of Karol Wojtyła in May 2020, signalizes the importance of the project which goes beyond a standard publication of an author's complete works. The series was inaugurated by the publication in 2018 of Volume One (Juvenilia, 1938-1946), whose editors are expected to continue working on the following volumes. The author of this article takes a look at the first collected works edition of The Poetry and Dramas of Karol Wojtyła - John Paul II, published in 1979 (it actually went to press in 1980) under the directorship of Jacek Woźniakowski and authorized by John Paul II himself. It was in fact a complete edition as its editors succeeded in collecting all of Karol Wojtyła literary works from the moment he enrolled at the Seminary until his election as Pope in 1978. All the texts used for that edition were collected at source and in that respect can hardly be surpassed. For over forty years it offered a reliable store of Karol Wojtyła's poems and plays to ordinary readers, translators, producers of plays and public ceremonies. In this article we can find a first-hand account of the story of that first edition from its inception, the role of the editors of the weekly Tygodnik Powszechny, the decisions taken at the Znak head office and the author's own contribution as editor. It is at this point that he explains the decision to exclude from their edition Karol Wojtyła's juvenila from his student years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This biographical paper describes Stanisław Barańczak's first attempts at translating poetry as a high school student in 1964. The aim of the paper is to present the birth of his philological passion, and to answer the question of how Barańczak emerges a translator. The presentation is based on six unpublished translations of Russian and English language poems found in the correspondence of Barañczak and in the hitherto unknown memories of his school friends. The analysis focuses on the technique of Barańczak's translation work, on reconstructing his motivations, selection of texts for translation, self-assessment of the results, opinions on the authors of the original and evaluation of pop-culture. In addition, the paper offers several facts from the private life of the teenage translator, among others the decision to study Polish philology, as well as his relations with his high school colleagues and teachers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is based on archival research on the records of the Ministry of Culture and Arts at the Archive of Modern Acts [Archiwum Akt Nowych] in Warsaw. Budrowska discovered and described hitherto unknown materials, including a personal questionnaire and a letter written by Julian Kawalec, attached to which is the cycle Czary i praca [Spells and Work], poetic juvenilia that are interesting from an artistic point of view. Budrowska concludes that early in his career, Kawalec expressed himself creatively through both prose and poetry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]