Prof. Dr Wacław Walecki is a Research Fellow in the Institute of Polish Studies
at the Jagiellonian University of Cracow. His chief academic interests
focus on Early and Enlightenment Polish Literature. He has written numerous
interpretative and synthetic papers in this field, including the following
monographic books:
Another branch of Wacław Walecki’s scholarship encompasses his work as an editor
and his publishing venture. He has edited an anthology of 16th-century
Polish prose entitled Z duchem w rozmawianiu
In Conversation with the Spirit: Polish Sixteenth-Century Prose,
Kraków, 1991, and a German-language anthology of Polish Renaissance literature,
Polnische Renaissance,
Frankfurt-am-Main, 1996, as well as collection of academic source-text
and bibliophile editions of books and prints in the publishing series he
has founded and is currently managing, Biblioteka Tradycji Literackich
The Literary Tradition Collection. In a joint undertaking with other specialists,
in this series Dr Walecki has reproduced bibliophilic curios such as a
facsimile of Mymer’s 1528 trilingual (Latin-German-Polish) dictionary; a rare set
of Latin odes and copper-plate illustrations presenting
the biography of Cardinal Hosius (1588); a collection of
Stanisław Wyspiański's autograph manuscripts; a compendium of passages
which the Polish novelist and Nobel prize holder,
Henryk Sienkiewicz, ultimately rejected and withdrew from his Trilogy;
and a facsimile of the 16th-century Polish psalter, Psałterz krakowski.
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This book, Wieczny Człowiek [The Eternal Man], is devoted
to a now not very widely known novel by the late 18th-century satirical
poet, Ignacy Krasicki, which faded into oblivion soon after its publication.
The author endeavours to show the novel’s special attributes, particularly
the extensive cultural and literary background to it which Bishop Krasicki
employed to conjure up the characteristic, brilliantly witty style he is
remembered for.
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