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Continuing his series of reminiscence entitled The Old River Valley published in 'Konteksty', the author based himself on post-war home economics and focused his attention on the attitude of the intelligentsia towards money and ownership as well as its economic life and sources of livelihood.
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By introducing the reader to fragments of his family's biography and describing his childhood experiences, the author pondered on a definition of the qualities of the elite and the intelligentsia. The latter term, essentially characteristic only for our post-partition and post-communist geographical region, is, together with its idealistic and useless dimension, forced to tackle daily reality.
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The author went on a literary journey to the past. Describing successive 'miraculous' escapes of assorted members of his family - a great grandfather almost hanged during a peasant rebellion, a grandfather saved from being lynched, and the author's mother, who evaded a firing squad during the Second World War - he reached deep into the past. Nostalgically skimming over places and epochs, the author dusted off images of history. This proximity and intimacy of reminiscences features a past that comes alive and in the author's account becomes outright palpable.
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A successive fragment of The Old River Valley, describing the amusing history of a security issued by the Domestic Economy Bank and bequeathed to the author by his aunt.
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