Museum dedicated to Polish literary classic
PR dla Zagranicy
Paweł Kononczuk
23.05.2016 14:37
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Museum dedicated to Polish literary classic
The epic poem Pan Tadeusz – or, to give its English title, The Last Foray in Lithuania: A Nobleman's Tale from the Years of 1811 and 1812 in Twelve Books of Verse – was first published in 1834, in Paris, where its author, Adam Mickiewicz had settled as an emigre.
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Those were times when Poland no longer existed as a state and the poem, with its tale of the life of the Polish gentry, ending with feuding neighbours united against a common enemy, soon gained cult status.
In its twelve books "Pan Tadeusz" contains a richness of images, from star-crossed lovers to brewing coffee, hunting traditions, family disputes, local nature, with an undercurrent of struggles and hopes for independence, and an iconic Polonaise for a grand finale.
Now the book has its own museum based in Wrocław, located in a beautiful historic tenement house right in the Old Town Square. Dobromiła Jankowska from the event department of the Pan Tadeusz Museum spoke on the phone to Elżbieta Krajewska.