In her book "To Europe - Yes, but Together with our Dead", a collection of sketches and interviews, Maria Janion, the author of numerous works about Polish Romantic culture, concentrates on the decline of our present cultural paradigm...
In her book To Europe - Yes, but Together with our Dead, a collection of sketches and interviews, Maria Janion, the author of numerous works about Polish Romantic culture, concentrates on the decline of our present cultural paradigm. Janion reveals the dark side of the Polish heritage astutely and uncompromisingly. The courage of asking the most unpleasant questions about today's Polish identity explains why the book has been the subject of broad discussion and is seen as one of the most important intellectual contributions to Polish literature in recent years.
"Our dead" of the title refer mainly to Jews. Janion's book engenders an atmosphere unusual in a work of literary history. It is an attempt to initiate the grieving for the Jewish contribution to Polish culture which has been lost. In the author's opinion, this is something which can no longer be postponed.
Maria Janion (b.1926) literary historian, professor at Warsaw University, outstanding scholar of the Romantic period, an undisputed intellectual authority.
- Maria Janion
To Europe - Yes, but Together with our Dead / Do Europy - Tak, ale razem z naszymi umarłymi
Wydawnictwo Sic!, Warszawa 2000
© Maria Janion and Wydawnictwo Sic!
135 x 205, 272 pages, paperback
ISBN 83-86056-85-1