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Jerzy Liebert in the light of the memories and literature criticism of Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the creative output of Jerzy Liebert seen through the Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz eyes. To develop the theme there were used some memories, diaries and correspondence of Anna and Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz. In addition this work contains two Iwaszkiewicz’s articles from the interwar period. In the first part Iwaszkiewicz characterized the relationship between him and Jerzy Liebert. There were also specified the circumstances how these two writers got to know each other and described the course of their relationship, indicating that the memory of Liebert was nurtured by Iwaszkiewicz, even after the death of the young poet. The second part contains the editorial study of two Iwaszkiewicz’s articles about the life and work of Jerzy Liebert published in the “Wiadomości Literackie” in 1931. The first one (Liebert’s “Witchcraft”) is a critique of Jerzy Liebert’s volume of poetry, the second text (The spiritual attitude of Jerzy Liebert) is a memoir and summarizes the writer’s literary output.

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