Crysta Babski: A Women's Friendship in a Man's Revolution
Crysta Babski: A Women's Friendship in a Man's Revolution

Summary/Abstract: During the bleak Polish winter of 1922, the young poet Wladyslaw Broniewski was dreaming of a fantastical romance with a demonic woman; instead he fell in love with Janina Kunig, a pretty girl still living in her hometown of Kalisz. Broniewski lived in the elegant prewar city of Warsaw, where he would spend his evenings with a small group of young writers, including Aleksander Wat, who gathered on the upper floor of Cafe Ziemiariska. The young poets were, for the most part, Poles and cosmopolitans, "non-Jewish Jews." Broniewski, in this respect, was an exception, an ethnic Pole, of them all the most tied to the Polish romantic tradition. [...]

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