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The Hands of Time

The book belongs to the essayistic part of Andrzej Gronczewski’s work. It combines two perspectives: the essayistic outlook with a melancholy reflection on human existence and the history of culture, and most importantly on the form which both acquire through the passing of time. It is an original artistic work, a sort of an intellectual diary, a monologue of a literature scholar and an art Connoisseur.

Keywords: essay, intellectual diary, hands, time, literary canon.

Andrzej Gronczewski (1940-2019) – an outstanding essayist, literary critic and literary historian, professor at the University of Warsaw.

He has published many books, including Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (1972, 1974), Initials and Wills (1984), War without End (1992), Lunch on the Ruins (1992, book September 1992, Warsaw Literary Premiere Award), Very scary manor (1999). He published poetry anthologies: Attempts at Nudity (1994) and Love Atlas. French poets of the 19th and 20th centuries (1996). In the years 2007-2011 a 3-volume edition of Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz's Diaries was published under his editorship and its introductions.

In 2015 he received the ZLP Award of Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz for lifetime achievement. He died on 14 July 2019.