Ukraine between East and West

IHOR SZEWCZENKO

And understand what a miserable Asian you are Panteleymon Kulish (1882)   Yes, Scythians, we! Yes, Asians, we, With...

Room 101

JURIJ SZEWELOW

In Western universities a lecture lasts 45 minutes, with a 15-minute break between lectures. In the Soviet Union a lecture...

The Youth of the Fourth Kharkiv

JURIJ SZEWELOW

The beautiful city of Kharkiv – so joyous in character, so extensive in size. How many grand edifices are present here,...

Beyond the Polish Circle

JERZY GIEDROYC

I am not a sociable person and have no talent for languages. Even my French is poor which has constrained me somewhat. However,...

The “Kultura” Team

JERZY GIEDROYC

Within the history of “Kultura”, the three most momentous events in my private history were the illnesses and deaths of...

Responsibility for Europe. Jerzy Stempowski, Jerzy Giedroyc and Germany

BASIL KERSKI

It is difficult to write of Jerzy Stempowski’s output as an essayist without thinking of Jerzy Giedroyc. Just as difficult...

Mikhail (Michel) Heller – the “Polish Russian” of the Literary Institute

JĘDRZEJ PIEKARA

This article, written by Jędrzej Piekara, was based on his bachelor’s thesis defended in June 2017. Source materials were...

EXHIBITION – JERZY GIEDROYC AND HIS ACHIEVEMENT

The exhibition presents over half a century of the Literary Institute's activity, profiles of its authors and publishing...

Malraux

JÓZEF CZAPSKI

André Malraux has died. Is it possible, today, to write of him, when television, radio and press are full of memoirs of...

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A Disposition for the Political...

ANDRZEJ STANISŁAW KOWALCZYK

A chapter from Andrzej S. Kowalczyk’s book “Wena do polityki. O Giedroyciu i Mieroszewskim” (A Disposition for the Political....

Jerzy Giedroyc – the precursor of post-war Polish-German dialogue

BASIL KERSKI

Among the majority of Poland’s political and cultural elites, Jerzy Giedroyc is today regarded as the great gardener of...

Sources of the ULB Doctrine

MAREK ŻEBROWSKI

In one of the interviews he gave, Jerzy Giedroyć said: “Between you and me, I harbour no special fondness for the Ukraine...

Giedroyc’s Victory

WOJCIECH KARPIŃSKI

He died aged 94, creatively active to the end, and that not as a private individual but as an institution – an institution...

Europe bears the imprint of “Kultura”

LEOPOLD UNGER

The legal document confirming Poland’s chairmanship of the Council of Europe should also bear the signature of Jerzy Giedroyć...

“Kultura” and a united Europe

IWONA HOFMAN

The idea of a united Europe, discussed in the pages of the monthly “Kultura” practically from the outset, was not the only...

Solzhenitsyn’s Press Conference

NORBERT ŻABA

Notes made by Norbert Żaba at the Press Conference given by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in Stockholm on 10 December 1974. After...

Laureaci

Nagrody literackie „Kultury” 1954   Marian Pankowski Smagła swoboda 1955   Andrzej Chciuk Smutny uśmiech            Leo...

Giedroyc – man of the east

ANDRZEJ BRZEZIECKI

“I am a man of the east” – wrote Jerzy Giedroyc to Juliusz Mieroszewski in 1966. It would be a serious mistake to think...