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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.
- Jerzy Żuławski, 14 July 1874, Lipowiec
- 9 August 1915 (aged 41), Dębica
- Polish
- University of Bern
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.
In 1901 Żuławski moved to Zakopane in the Polish Tatra mountains. There, he was a co-founder of the Tatra Volunteer Search and Rescue, and co-editor of Zakopane. During World War I he fought in the Polish Legions and was co-editor of a Legion-run magazine Do Broni (editor’s translation: To Arms).
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
Mar 20, 2024 · Born on July 14, 1874, Zulawski was an extremely versatile artist: he wrote both dramas with historical and contemporary themes, in his time eagerly staged in theaters, poetry and various prose genres: short stories, novellas, novels and philosophical essays. Zulawski as a thinker was primarily interested in civilization and social processes.
Mar 5, 2013 · The idea for this book originated in our observation that while there is a growing body of innovative work dealing with transnationality in world cinemas, studies devoted to this phenomenon tend to omit Eastern European cinemas, including Polish films, an area of special interest to the editors of this volume.
Trylogia Księżycowa ( The Lunar Trilogy [1] or The Moon Trilogy [2]) is a trilogy of science fiction novels by the Polish writer Jerzy Żuławski, written between 1901 and 1911. [3] [4] It has been translated into Russian, Czech, German, English [5] and Hungarian, and has been reprinted several times in Poland. [4] They are his best-known works.
