MORAWSKI Franciszek - My grandfather's train station and a visit to the neighborhood [after 1882].

Brody [after 1882]. Circulated and printed by the bookstore of Felix West. Masterpieces of Polish and foreign writers. 14x21.5 cm, pp. 71, half-leather bookbinding of the period, with titling on the spine. Good condition (rubbing of binding, ownership stamps).

Publication containing two works inspired by Pan Tadeusz by Franciszek Morawski (1783-1861), major general, minister of war in the National Government during the November Uprising, poet, literary and theatrical critic, translator and playwright. Compiled by Stanislaw Zathey.

His [Morawski's]thoughts turn more and more to the past and he finds more and more pleasure in it. The greatest appeal for him now is in his earliest memories: from them he wants to create a poem, because he thinks they are the most interesting, and that "it's nice to hear an old man recounting his already distant childhood, still blowing out the ashes that have been extinguished for so long (...). He wishes to "shine" the old simplicity, hospitality, honesty, faith and a little rubbishiness, which, after all, was not without charm. From memories, from reflections, a poem is born, in which the past is full of charm. Mickiewicz's "Pan Tadeusz" also provided a stimulus for writing. Morawski himself admits that he "wanted to make something out of the life of Greater Poland like Mickiewicz did out of Lithuanian life, although he did not think to match him. [Stanislaw Zathey]