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In the first days of August 1914, as the three entities of partitioned Poland—Russia, Germany and Austro-Hungary were entering the First World War, Jerzy Żuławski made the only decision he felt reflected his principles and joined Piłsudski's Legions to fight for the cause of regaining Polish independence.
Mar 29, 2022 · How do NASA, mountaineering, George Clooney and colonialism all connect to the roots of Polish science-fiction? Culture.pl’s former English section head Adam Żuławski looks back at the life of his grandfather, his family tree, and the history of Polish sci-fi to weave an intimate and intricate tapestry of answers for you.
Polish poet, writer and playwright. Born 14th July 1874 in Lipowiec, close to Rzeszów, died during the typhus epidemic in Dębica, 9th August 1915.
#Travel, Volunteering, and War From 1910 onward, Żuławski traveled extensively before settling in Zakopane. There, he volunteered with the Tatra Mountain Rescue Service. With the outbreak of World War I, Żuławski enlisted as a volunteer and served on the front lines.
Żuławski's father had been an insurgent in the 1863 January Uprising, and Jerzy himself died in World War I as a soldier of the Polish Legions. The intellectual influence is reflected in his many patriotic poems and a close engagement with Polish Romantic literature.
- Łukasz Wodzyński
- 2018
Jerzy Żuławski (Polish: [ˈjɛʐɨ ʐuˈwafski]; 14 July 1874 – 9 August 1915) was a Polish literary figure, philosopher, translator, alpinist and nationalist whose best-known work is the science-fiction epic, Trylogia Księżycowa (The Lunar Trilogy), written between 1901 and 1911. In a twenty-year...
The entire European society seems to be plunged into stagnation – the result of the limitations of science as the engine of social and cultural progress. In 1976 Żuławski's grandnephew, the film director Andrzej Żuławski, began a loose adaptation of the trilogy.
