27.04.2019 Events, Literature

Sergiusz Piasecki: Lover of the Ursa Major

Common book presentation of Rézbong Publish House, Wacław Felczak Foundation, and Polish Institute on the 26th International Book Festival.

Saturday 27 April 2019, 1:30 pm

Millenáris, Szabó Magda terem

Bp. II. Kis Rókus u. 16-20.

Sergiusz Piasecki was one of the best known Polish language writers of the mid 20th century. His crowning achievement, Kochanek Wielkiej Niedźwiedzicy (Lover of the Ursa Major or Lover of the Greater Bear) published in 1937, was the third most popular novel in the Second Polish Republic. Following World War II, Piasecki’s books were banned by communist censorship in the People’s Republic of Poland. 

On the International Book Festival we finally present one of the most popular novel in the history of Twentieth centrury’s Polish literature in hungarian translation

Hungarian language program.

 

Sergiusz Piasecki – Witkacy’s portret  

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