Jan Walc – Od kultury oficjalnej do kultury niezależnej
Jan Walc – From the official culture to the independent one

Summary/Abstract: Jan Walc was a character with rich achievements, and at the same timecolorful and interesting. He was a critic who writes about Tadeusz Konwicki and Adam Mickiewicz, secretary of Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz ordering his archives and atthe same time one of the most severe critics of his attitude, teacher, a co-workerof weeklies “Polityka” and “Kultura”, and finally – a longtime activist of thedemocratic opposition and a leading publicist and printer of the secondcirculation in the PRL. The above calculation itself shows the originality of thischaracter, today almost completely forgotten. In his texts he critisised partyactivists, militiamen, prosecutors, luminaries of Polish literature, democraticopposition leaders, former and current colleagues, and even his daughter’steachers. In the talk I will want to show the Jan Walc’s way to participate inindependent publishing movement and his role in this phenomenon.

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