Eastern Borderlands – Dream and Utopia. On the Unpublished Book by Melchior Wańkowicz Cover Image

Kresy – marzenie i utopia. O niepublikowanej książce Melchiora Wańkowicza
Eastern Borderlands – Dream and Utopia. On the Unpublished Book by Melchior Wańkowicz

Author(s): Urszula Glensk
Subject(s): Polish Literature
Published by: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
Keywords: Borderlands; border guards; reportage; propaganda

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the collection of “Borderlands reports” by Melchior Wańkowicz Znowu siejemy w Polsce B (We Sow Again in Poland B), written in the late 1930s, deposited in the Ossolineum Library and never before published in its entirety. The text illustrates the social and political situation in areas of ethnic rivalry. It also reports and interprets the writer’s activities as a propagandist and agitator of the Border Protection Corps during the period of marking and stabilizing the eastern border of the Second Polish Republic.

  • Issue Year: 2025
  • Issue No: 37
  • Page Range: 109-122
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish
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