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Meeting
A Book at the Museum: The Man Who Shaped Poland. A Conversation with Adam Michnik
Guests
Adam Michnik, Andrzej Friszke, Mirosław Czech, Dominika Kozłowska
Location
Auditorium
Language of the meeting
Polish
Admission
Free admission thanks to a partnership with Audi
Znak Publishing House and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw invite you to a discussion with Adam Michnik about the biography *Michnik: The Man Who Edited Poland* by Anna Nasalska.
A revolutionary who won the hearts of the people? A demiurge or a herald? Loved by whom, an enemy to whom?
Anna Nasalska’s intellectual biography of Adam Michnik seeks answers to these questions by going straight to the sources: the texts, readings, and inspirations of the editor-in-chief of “Gazeta Wyborcza,” and answers them with reverence, insight, and scholarly rigor. This is not only a portrait of one of the most influential figures of the Polish intelligentsia of the 20th and 21st centuries, but also a chronicle of the formation of an entire generation that came of age in the shadow of totalitarianism, dreams of freedom, and fears for a fragile democracy.
Anna Nasalska, a cultural scholar and witness to the era, portrays Michnik as a writer, thinker, and editor whose words—matching his deeds—helped shape Polish reality. From conversations, essays, disputes, and friendships, the author weaves an intellectual panorama of the past half-century. This is a book about the power of language, about dialogue, and about resistance
to the cynicism of history.
Anna Nasalska, a cultural scholar and witness to the era, portrays Michnik as a writer, thinker, and editor whose words—matching his deeds—helped shape Polish reality. From conversations, essays, disputes, and friendships, the author weaves an intellectual panorama of the past half-century. This is a book about the power of language, about dialogue, and about resistance
to the cynicism of history.
From the foreword by Jan Pomorski:
“Adam Michnik gave the author free rein and read only the final version of the book. After reading it—as he told me—he was moved: by the scale of the undertaking (Nasalska studied his entire body of work and a great many texts about him) and by the final result, which reveals a network of his intellectual and ideological connections and mutual inspirations. Unraveling this network must have taken years. It was necessary not only to follow the clues left behind, but also to navigate skillfully within
the same hermeneutic circle—Michnik’s readings, his conversations, and his
interlocutors—that is, to read the same things he did, while striving to maintain chronological order. To understand how he matured intellectually, how his ideology took shape, and how he engaged with the world.”
The following people will attend the meeting
Adam Michnik
Andrzej Friszke
Dominika Kozłowska
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