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. The Slavonic languages include Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Bulgarian and Russian. The Polish language has a long and very rich cultural tradition dating back many centuries. The language not only survived, but thrived during the partition of Poland that lasted for over 130 years. Poland has unearthed many significant contributors to the literary and performing arts over the course of the 20th Century, who used the Polish language to express their unique Polish perspective on the world.
Profiles nearly 900 prominent Poles in all walks of life, beginning with Mieszko I, who in 963 united six tribes to form the nation of Poland, and continuing up to the country's present. Ten saints and 11 Nobel Prize winners are among the subjects, as are the inventor of the automobile windshield wiper and the first women to sail solo around the world. its biographical coverages are in-depth reviews of the lives of individuals and their impact upon Polish history and culture. an involved work which should lend to any research efforts connected with Polish achievement. "The dearth of material on this subject in English makes an even stronger case for its inclusion in biographical reference collections in public and academic libraries.
. The outstanding Italian critic Germano Celant has been appointeed artistic director and curator of the main exhibition. Poland will be represented by Zofia Kulik, an artist ranked as one of the most interesting figures in contemporary Polish art. Until 1987 she worked together with Przemyslaw Kwiek at the independent centre of creative activities they had both founded. Zofia Kulik sees her work as inseparable from the current cultural codes and connects it with an urge to recognize and document the surrounding reality, rationalize it and eventually step beyond it.
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Young and widely acclaimed theater director, Grzegorz Jarzyna, staged Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus during the 49th Berliner Westwochen. His version of the masterpiece surprised the audience with its traditionality, but did not convince the German critics who wrote of it as a "disaster". The Polish premiere of Jarzyna's Doctor Faustus took place on 1 October. As a part of the Krakow 2000 Festival, the 75th anniversary of Joseph Conrad's death was celebrated. Celebrations took form of an international conference entitled "Conrad and History".
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