WAŃKOWICZ Melchior
KUNDLISM
London, 1947. Breiter's edition, pp. 88, format 12x17 cm
BACK COVER
Issue 1.
"This pamphlet, is four columns on a common theme, selected from among the weekly columns written casually and without sources in the "Diary of an APW Soldier" in the period leading up to Monte Cassino.
Having made some abridgements and additions, I am printing them now, after the war effort is complete, sharing the fear that the tomb of heroes may become the lair of mongrels, and their blood - cement to strengthen the walls of megalomania that the slothfulness will erect ,'will build around the Polish ghetto in exile.
Those who do not want to stay in the ghetto - the world beyond the "friendly" second wards) will not ask about the ability to die, but about the ability to live.
Perhaps these four columns will also be useful as one of the contributions to the collective effort - to revise the view of ourselves."
"A collection of columns dealing with the behavior of Poles in exile. It aroused such enormous controversy that when the author published "Mongrelism" in Rome in 1974, several émigré magazines broke off cooperation with him in protest.
Because "mongrelism" was what Wańkowicz called our national trait, which is the opposite of dignity and nobility. For these journalistic texts are not only an observation of emigrant life in a foreign country - they are an ardent and open criticism of compatriots trying to take shortcuts and build their own happiness on other people's harm." Source: Heraclon International Publishing
Includes: A shoemaker envies a canon for becoming a prelate / Fumy / Mongrelism / Breeding angels.
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