„Domowe cztery kąty, piec piąty i teatr szósty”
“Four housecats, the stove fifth and the theatre sixth”

Summary/Abstract: A review of Impressions and Memoirs of a Young Theatregoer (Kraków 2012) – the notes of Elżbieta Kietlińska, published by the Jagiellonian Library and Academic Bookshop. By referring to the introduction written by Jan Michalik (who also prepared the manuscripts for this edition), Targoń helps readers to gain a fuller appreciation of the biography of an author who lived in Kraków around the turn of the 20th century (the notes begin in 1894 and finish in 1919; they are complemented by a commentary completed in the 1940s). This book, as Targoń notes, can be read in several ways: as source material for the history of theatre, “as a depiction of the tastes and needs of an ordinary Cracovian spectator” combining love for the theatre with soberness of judgement or “as a depiction of the day to day concerns of a Cracovian theatregoer”.

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