{"id":39489,"date":"2026-08-31T15:42:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T13:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/warsztatykultury.pl\/wydarzenia\/spiritual-portraits-of-the-authors-of-the-parisian-kultura-meeting-with-lukasz-marcinczak\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T15:42:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T13:42:53","slug":"spiritual-portraits-of-the-authors-of-the-parisian-kultura-meeting-with-lukasz-marcinczak","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/warsztatykultury.pl\/en\/wydarzenia\/spiritual-portraits-of-the-authors-of-the-parisian-kultura-meeting-with-lukasz-marcinczak\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual portraits of the authors of the Parisian \u201cKultura\u201d | meeting with \u0141ukasz Marci\u0144czak"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About<\/h2>\n<p><strong>What did Czes\u0142aw Mi\u0142osz, Witold Gombrowicz, J\u00f3zef Czapski and Gustaw Herling-Grudzi\u0144ski have in common apart from belonging to the Parisian \u201cKultura\u201d circle? \u0141ukasz Marci\u0144czak examined their work and biographies through the lens of spiritual and existential quests. The author will talk about his book \u201cOdyseusze z Maisons-Laffitte. Duchowe portrety autor\u00f3w \u00bbKultury\u00ab paryskiej\u201d on September 27 during the Lublin Book Fair.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The book is a collection of 10 literary essays devoted to authors associated with the Parisian \u201cKultura\u201d. Its subjects include poets Czes\u0142aw Mi\u0142osz and Wac\u0142aw Iwaniuk, essayists Jele\u0144ski and Stempowski, diarists Czapski and Herling-Grudzi\u0144ski, playwright Gombrowicz, novelist Czarnyszewicz, and Andrzej Bobkowski, author of the celebrated \u201cSzkice pi\u00f3rkiem\u201d. They are all united by a common idea \u2013 that of a journal serving as the intellectual centre of Polish emigration in the second half of the 20th century \u2013 and all proved to be outstanding figures in the history of 20th-century Polish literature.<\/p>\n<p>This publication deepens our understanding of the phenomenon of the \u201cKultura\u201d circle by presenting portraits of its principal figures in their spiritual dimension \u2013 not only in relation to fundamental issues of collective life, but above all by exploring the individual existential and, often, metaphysical quests of each of them. The search for a personal meaning in life opens up a new perspective on how we perceive the works and attitudes of people who continue to shape our present.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting will be hosted by Maciej Wodzi\u0144ski.<\/p>\n<p>The book \u201cOdyseusze z Maisons-Laffitte. Duchowe portrety autor\u00f3w \u00bbKultury\u00ab paryskiej\u201d was published by Wydawnictwo Warsztaty Kultury. It can be purchased for 35 z\u0142 <a role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/wydawnictwo.warsztatykultury.pl\/produkt\/odyseusze-z-maisons-laffitte-duchowe-portrety-autorow-kultury-paryskiej\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>on the publisher\u2019s website<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Details<\/h2>\n<p><strong>When:<\/strong> September 27, 2026 (Sunday), 13:00<br \/>\n<strong>Where:<\/strong> Targi Lublin, Dworcowa 11, Pavilion Stage<br \/>\n<strong>Admission:<\/strong> tickets required, more information on the <a href=\"https:\/\/lubelskie.targiksiazki.pl\/pl\/dla-zwiedzajacych\/wazne-informacje\/bilety\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Lubelskie Targi Ksi\u0105\u017cki<\/strong><\/a> website<\/p>\n<h2>Participants<\/h2>\n<p><strong>\u0141ukasz Marci\u0144czak<\/strong> \u2013 born in 1971 in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a. A graduate of philosophy at Maria Curie-Sk\u0142odowska University, he holds a PhD in philosophy and edited \u201cAS UMCS\u201d, the journal of the UMCS Alumni Association. Since 2006, he has been a regular contributor to \u201cAkcent\u201d, where he publishes essays, reviews and studies on writers associated with the Parisian \u201cKultura\u201d as well as on the multicultural past of Lublin and the Lublin region. He has also published in \u201cColloquia Communia\u201d, \u201cGazeta Wyborcza\u201d and \u201cMagyar Napl\u00f3\u201d (Budapest). He is the author of the poetry collection \u201cProfil odci\u015bni\u0119ty w glinie\u201d (2002) and the collections of losological inquiries \u201c\u015awiat trzeba przekr\u0119ci\u0107. Rozmowy o imponderabiliach\u201d (2013) and \u201c\u015awiat trzeba doko\u0144czy\u0107. Rozmowy o imponderabiliach\u201d (2017); he also co-edited the books \u201cAndrzeja Klimowicza portret wielokrotny\u201d (2013) and \u201cHomo sentiens \u2013 cz\u0142owiek czuj\u0105cy. Ksi\u0119ga Przyjaci\u00f3\u0142 Jadwigi Mizi\u0144skiej\u201d (2013). He collected his most important essays in the volume \u201cKamienie pachn\u0105ce szafranem\u201d (Lublin 2016). He has been awarded the Medal of the President of the City of Lublin (2010), the Medal of the Union of Lublin (2017), the title of Bene Meritus Terrae Lublinensi (2017), and the Medal of the 700th Anniversary of the City of Lublin (2018).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maciej Wodzi\u0144ski<\/strong> \u2013 holds a PhD in philosophy from Maria Curie-Sk\u0142odowska University in Lublin, a retired marcher, a self-taught carpenter, and genetically predisposed to philosophizing, with a predilection for spending his life renovating old rural cottages and putting into practice the motto \u201cbuild, dwell, think\u201d. His academic interests focus on the philosophy of psychiatry and mental well-being in the broader sense; he is a recipient of the Diamond Grant in the humanities. In love with Greece. He still, although somewhat clumsily, tries to enter into dialogue with the thought of its great departed thinkers, seeking in these conversations a \u201cway back\u201d to their long-forgotten way of experiencing the world.<\/p>\n<h2>About the Publisher<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Wydawnictwo Warsztaty Kultury<\/strong>, run by the municipal institution Workshops of Culture in Lublin, is a small, niche publishing house focused on the literature and culture of Central and Eastern European countries. Its publishing activity centres mainly on the \u201cWschodni Express\u201d series. The series primarily features prose and essays spanning a wide range of genres, as well as poetry. Its authors include some of the most distinguished writers from Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia and Lithuania. The publishing house also takes pride in its collaboration with Bohdan Zadura, one of Poland\u2019s foremost translators of Ukrainian prose and poetry. Among its achievements is the \u201cAngelus\u201d award, granted in 2022 for the translation from Hungarian of Zolt\u00e1n Mih\u00e1ly Nagy\u2019s book \u201cSzata\u0144ski pomiot\u201d. The translation was made by Daniel Warmuz. Another significant achievement for Workshops of Culture was \u201cPunkt zerowy\u201d by Artem Czech reaching the shortlist for the Ryszard Kapu\u015bci\u0144ski Award in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>All books published by Workshops of Culture in Lublin can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/wydawnictwo.warsztatykultury.pl\/sklep\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>on the publisher\u2019s website<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About What did Czes\u0142aw Mi\u0142osz, Witold Gombrowicz, J\u00f3zef Czapski and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":39331,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"tags":[104],"mec_category":[430],"class_list":["post-39489","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-literature","mec_category-publishing"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - 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