Freedom and possession in the letters of Andrzej Bobkowski
For Bobkowski, to maintain personal freedom based on material independence achieved through his own work was a fundamental existential issue. Freedom and financial independence were: a declaration, a life’s motto and an economic programme. The writer’s concept was, eventually, reduced to a change of...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Lodz University Press
2017-10-01
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| Series: | Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica |
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| Online Access: | https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/polonica/article/view/3056 |
| Summary: | For Bobkowski, to maintain personal freedom based on material independence achieved through his own work was a fundamental existential issue. Freedom and financial independence were: a declaration, a life’s motto and an economic programme. The writer’s concept was, eventually, reduced to a change of his status as a political exile to the situation of an economic migrant who also supported Poland’s freedom. |
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| ISSN: | 1505-9057 2353-1908 |