#by signing a declaration in the Sejm. but he's funding the empire to keep his estate!

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Korzenie is a novel about The Discourse and I think that's beautiful (whole entire chapter relitigating the 1927 national debate about where Słowacki's remains should be interred when they were repatriated to independent Poland, at the Wawel or in Warsaw, though for a novel scaffolded around Freudian psychoanalysis it somehow leaves out my all-time favorite answer to the 'where should Słowacki's remains be buried' survey, Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna's fantastically succinct "he should be buried together with his mother because they loved each other very much")

#stefania tag #korzenie tag #interwar poland is my drug of choice #interwar polish press tag #wiadomości literackie invented the social media questionnaire and boy invented the shitpost answer to it #i'm going to pick a fight with this guy who wrote an article about żyrardow for not mentioning that #1) żyrardow was named after philipe girard #yes that one. & WHY it was named after him in the first place #2) that pawel H-L was not some weird unknown guy who burst onto the scene with the factory murder he has been out here #he has been doing this forever yelling about the state of polish socialism and foreign capital and #telling people to Read Marx In The Original lmfao #whenever wiadomości asks what he's working on he's like I can't make a living from writing because of Capitalism #he has been That Guy for 84 years he's a beloved crank #the issue with żyrardow goes back to--again--the 19th century and polish nobles living in France who met in #one of the imperial regiments like it is foreign capital and also. Polish landed gentry and a long legacy of imperialism and #Bad Internationalism. One of the guys who invited Girard to Poland to produce linen for export to Russia #Is a national hero because he symbolically 'dethroned' the tsar in 1904-1905 #by signing a declaration in the Sejm. but he's funding the empire to keep his estate! #ahhhhhh. Class analysis my good bitch Jerzy