Niedźwiedź

Abstrakt

The text is a perverse melange of historical facts and fiction, immersed in Polish and European literary tradition. From the perspective of 1810, it shows a fragment of the history of two generations of a Polish family involved in political events stretching from the times of the last king of Poland (1764–1795), through the period of the Duchy of Warsaw (1807–1813) and the November Uprising (1830– –1831), with the last episode dating as late as 1962. The axis of the narrative is built around the history of a bear fur coat, which has been used in the family for over a hundred years.