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The article comprehensively presents French art and literature in a socio-cultural weekly magazine that was published between 1944 and 1950, and that was considered to be one of the most prominent magazines in post-war Poland. Its widespread reach and open attitude towards culture that was reflected in “Odrodzenie” (contrary to Marxist approach represented in “Kuźnica”) influenced opinion-forming processes greatly and also shaped new literary canon. It was edited by Karol Kuryluk followed by Jerzy Borejsza — both editors had been genuinely involved in French culture since youth, hence the presence of writers and artists from that circle was explicit. Considering the amount of texts, “Odrodzenie” consisted mostly of Russian literature and also of French literature, that, having more artistic value, was ahead of English and Italian writings. Those proportions were also influenced by Aragon, Picasso and Eluard who were leftist and who were close friends with Kuryluk and Borejsza. Those connections were natural for both editors and they confirmed particular place that Poland took on the verge of Western and Eastern cultures. The transition that started to happen around 1948 and the processes that inhibited artistic freedom lead to a shift in the attitude towards Western culture which also included French culture. The beginning of Social Realism terminated artistic freedom and ended the publishing of “Odrodzenie” that was then perceived as too liberal. The magazine had printed classic writings by authors such as Diderot, Hugo, then-forgotten symbolists such as Verlaine, Rimbaud, and also by current writers that were gradually recognized in Polish culture.
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The Ossolineum was a result of scientific patronage undertaken by the representatives of the cultural elite since the beginning of the 19th century creating institutions of scientific and artistic life independent from the annexing countries. Those were foundations, to a lesser degree subjects of political pressure, which could be presented by their founders as nationally indifferent. In reality, however, they played a key role in maintaining national identity, educating intelligentsia and gathering and protecting the heritage of “the nation without a country”. Inscribing in the tradition of the activity of Duchess Izabela Czartoryska in Puławy, Józef Maksymilian Ossoliński established one of the first and largest Polish libraries which since the very beginning was open to the scientific world. Along with the libraries of the Zamoyski family in Warsaw and of the Raczyński family and Tytus Działyński in the Poznańskie region they created a network of libraries (mutual contacts and exchanges of doublets) radiating onto Polish annexed territories. And similarly to those the Ossolineum being a result of the patronage generated similar initiatives with their contemporary people who donated there not only family libraries but also gathered for generation works of are and other collections. An integral part of the Ossolineum was Dukes Lubomirskis’ Museum whose owners committed themselves to support this institution thanks to the Przeworsk fee tail set up for this very purpose. The Ossolineum functioned without breaks throughout the 19th century realizing postulates of its founder and consecutive curators, namely Duke Henryk and Jerzy Henryk Lubomirski and Maurycy Dzieduszycki continuing the realization of a sentence inscribed above the Sibyl temple in Puławy: The past for the future.
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