Włodzimierz Pietrzak (1913-1944) – literat, krytyk i działacz polityczny
Włodzimierz Pietrzak (1913-1944) – Writer, Critic and Political Activist

Summary/Abstract: This article presents a profile of Włodzimierz Pietrzak, a writer and literary critic associated with Turek and Kalisz. A search through archival, museum and library resources has revealed a number of new facts about the writer’s life and work and discover unknown photographs of the poet and documents related to his studies at the University of Warsaw. The biography, based on archival and press sources, was enriched with data from the post-war memoirs of members of the Artistic Club “S” and Konfederacja Narodu, as well as writers with whom W. Pietrzak had artistic and literary ties and long-standing friendships. The collected material presents the writer as an intellectual, erudite writer, essayist and collaborator of the major literary periodicals of the inter-war period, and provides a behind-the-scenes look at his political involvement.

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