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    Published : 2025-11-21
    Vol. 73 No. 1 Zeszyt specjalny (2025)

    Some Remarks on the Margins of Piotr Kłoczowski’s Conversations With Józef Czapski

    Zdzisław Kudelski

    https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2483-8698

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18290/rh25731.14s

    Abstract

    This article is devoted to the paradoxes of the presence of Józef Czapski – a painter and writer banned by the censorship during the communist years. His books reached Poland in small quantities smuggled across the border from the West, while as a painter in the country he was almost completely absent...

    Czapski’s versatility, the different areas of his activity – artistic, writing, emigration – are united by his diary of 270 volumes, which is available only in fragmentary form: either quotations ‘plucked’ from the whole, with their graphic side omitted, or selected reproductions. This work is a particular editorial challenge.

    Published in 2024, the new, expanded edition of Piotr Kłoczowski’s conversations with Józef Czapski, The World in My Eyes, is an extraordinary, irreplaceable testimony and a very important source of knowledge about Czapski’s biography, still astonishing and fascinating, a description of his path to painting, the spiritual formation from which he came, his own search, important readings, meetings with people who influenced him, his friends. Piotr Kłoczowski was an exceptional intellectual partner for Czapski, who at the same time was able to create an atmosphere of intimacy conducive to the artist’s memories.

    Keywords:

    Józef Czapski, post-war emigration, painting, diary, monthly magazine Kultura (Paris)



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    Roczniki Humanistyczne · ISSN 0035-7707 | eISSN 2544-5200 | DOI: 10.18290/rh
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