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Maria Janion

Born 1926 · Poland

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    Nike 2007 · Shortlist

    Niesamowita Słowiańszczyzna

    Title translated by AI:“Uncanny Slavdom”

    Maria Janion · 80 when first published

    Nonfiction · 357 pages · Historical, Politics

    AI-generated summary:A study of Polish myths and fantasies: the attempts of the Romantics to recover a pagan Slavic past, the messianic Catholicism of the partitions, and how these shaped Polish attitudes to Russia and to strangers.