Fragmenty o czasie i miejscach pamięci [Fragments about Time and Places of Remembrance] are concerned with unpublished fragments of Kazimierz Bartoszyński’s papers (”Wstęp do książki zbiorowej o czasie” [”Introduction to a collective work on time”]), memoirs (”Wspomnienia z Łańcuta” [”Memoir of Łańcut”]) and ideas (”Fragmenty książki o czasie” [”Fragments of a book on time”]). These fragments were preserved in the form of typescripts, notes and oral accounts that had been taken down by Professor Bartoszyński’s wife.
Prof. Kazimierz Bartoszyński was one of the most respected theoreticians of literature in Poland. He worked closely with the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The period of Professor Bartoszyński’s greatest activity as a researcher coincided with the time when he was fascinated with structuralism, but his interests went far beyond these methodological issues. The author of this memoir, who was the Professor’s doctoral student, portrays him through the prism of their conversations on scholarly topics and her private relationship with Mr. and Mrs. Bartoszyński, which lasted for many years.
This is a memoir of Professor Kazimierz Bartoszyński. The theme of this essay is silence – literary silence, which is the result of convention, anecdotal silence, which prompts scholarly meetings and friendships, and metaphysical silence, which is connected with death.
This is an anecdotal memoir of Kazimierz Bartoszyński, which describes the community of members of the Institute of Literary Research and their university colleagues from all over Poland. It was at this institute that the largest scholarly project related to Polish studies was set up. This project was carried out for half a century and resulted in organizing annual conferences on literary theory as well as in publishing the proceedings of these conferences.
The author of this article discusses Kazimierz Bartoszyński’s didactic activity and writings, i.e. his doctoral thesis titled O powieściach Fryderyka Skarbka [On Fryderyk Skarbek’s Novels] (which was published in 1963) and his later articles on the gawęda (i.e. a story stylized as an oral tale) and historical novel (which are collected in the volume titled O polskich prozach powieściowych – słynnych i nieco zapomnianych [On Polish Prose Novels – Those Famous and Slightly Forgotten Ones] (2011)). These writings were a continuation of the studies of the 19th-century novel thathad been conducted in Poznań.
Tekst kreśli postać zmarłego w styczniu tego roku profesora Kazimierza Bartoszyńskiego, znakomitego uczonego, wybitnego historyka i teoretyka literatury. Nekrolog przypomina dorobek badacza i skupia się na doktrynach, które najsilniej wpłynęły na jego prace, tj. na fenomenologii, strukturalizmie i hermeneutyce. Tekst zamykają wspomnienia z prywatnych kontaktów z profesorem Kazimierzem Bartoszyńskim.
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The text depicts the figure of professor Kazimierz Bartoszyński (died January this year), a remarkable scholar, distinguished literary historian and literary theorist. It recalls the researcher’s scholarly achievements and focuses on the doctrines which had most considerable influence on his work, i.e. phenomenology, structuralism, and hermeneutics. The closing part of the texts contains memories of the author’s private contacts with Bartoszyński
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