“Only to register reading impressions, I think, although I am obsessively checking facts”. Professor Krystyna Poklewska Talks to Krystyna Pietrych and Tomasz Cieślak

Abstract

In an interview with Krystyna Pietrych and Tomasz Cieślak, Krystyna Poklewska, professor emerita of the Łódź University, discusses the first years of the Faculty of Philology and Polish Studies in Łódź. It was also when she started her studies after leaving the destroyed Warsaw. She mentions numerous great individuals who used to work there, such as Jan Dürr-Durski, Samuel Sandler, Stefan Kawyn or Zdzisław Skwarczyński. The Professor considers her own career as a scholar: her earliest years marked by the strong influence of Kawyn, until the most recent time, which found her with inexhaustible passion for working with the literature of Polish Romanticism.