Jerzy Giedroyc. Do Polski ze snu

The biography opens, as biographies do, with genealogy, but because Giedroyc was one with Kultura, the Paris monthly he created and which died with him, it becomes much more: a story of the magazine and of the people who made it, such as Józef Czapski, Gustaw Herling-Grudziński and Konstanty Jeleński, and of the Polish intelligentsia in the second half of the twentieth century. It takes Giedroyc off his pedestal, shows his sometimes unpleasant human face, and treats his unfulfilled dream of a Poland free of nationalism as romantic in scale rather than defeated.

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About the book

Form

Nonfiction

Length

685 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Politics, Migration (assigned by AI)

Set in

France, Poland

First published

2009 by Świat Książki

Author's age

59 when first published

ISBN

9788324709045 (original)