Invitation to the Krakow Tuesday Club meeting
date:30 March 2026 Editor: Anna
We invitation you to a gathering of the Krakow Tuesday Club in Pub Horn of Bracka and Reformacka, 3 Reformacka Street.
on Tuesday 31 March 2026 at 6 p.m. Subject: War Law Literature 1981-1989
The club will be visited by prof. Maciej Urbanowski (Polonistics Department of the Jagiellonian University, historian of Polish literature, literary critic).
The gathering will be chaired by Adam Kalita.
Maciej Urbanowski (born 1965) is simply a historian of Polish literature, literary critic, editor, prof. of the Jagiellonian University, where he works in the Department of Contemporary Critics at the Faculty of Polish Studies. Since 1995 he has been associated with the Krakow bimonthly “Arcana”. He published many books, including monographs Nationalist literary criticism. effort to describe and reconstruct the current in II RP (1997), A man from a deeper underground. Life and Works by Jan Emil Skiwski (2003), Brzozowski.Modernity (2017) and the Year 1920 in Polish literature (2020). He prepared for printing anthologies European visions of Polish writers in the 20th century (2011) and Is God, lives the truth. Another face of Stanisław Brzozowski (2012), as well as the election of writings by K. Wyki, S. Piasecki, F. Goetl, A. Trzebiński, K.L. Koniński and A. Jesionowski. He edited the 10-volume series “Pism collected” by Stanisław Rembek. He published, among others, in the “Literary Decade”, “Europe”, “New Books”, “Literary Movement” and “Creativity”. From 2017 to 2023 he was the president of the jury of the Józef Mackiewicz Literary Award, presently chairing the jury of the Mark Nowakowski Literary Award. From 2018 to 2024 he was a associate of the Programme Council of the Book Institute.
The author of the book “The Literature of the War of 1981–1989” Prof. Maciej Urbanowski presented in it a comprehensive model of Polish literature in the 1980s, and thus in times peculiarly crucial for Polish contemporary history, erstwhile Polish society organized in the Independent Local Professional Union “Solidarity” experienced severe trials in clash with totalitarian and oppressive power. The outstandingness of the book by Prof. Urbanowski is first and foremost evidenced by the way in which the subject was developed.
Below are any of the reviews of renowned literary scholars.
"The literature of the martial law 1981–1989" is simply a large technological accomplishment of prof. Maciej Urbanowski. This is an outstanding book, which, despite the author's modest declarations, challenges contemporary literature, which ignores the phenomenon of martial law literature. [...] Urbanowski's extraordinary and outstanding publication determines not only the taking up of the forgotten (or even unwanted) subject, which required investigation courage, but above all the way to make "war law literature". The book contains detailed information about the historical context of this literature, an unabsorbed wealth of information about magazines, publications, titles, editorials and works, and, above all, is simply a masterpiece, literaryly perfect presentation of the issues of individual works and the main topics of literary criticism accompanying martial law literature. [...] This work is finished, full, thoughtful and first in all element.
Prof. dr hab. Włodzimierz Bolecki, em. Prof. IBL PAN
It is simply a book that is technological and crucial for the national awareness of contemporary Poles. It presents a comprehensive model of our literature in the 1980s, saving from oblivion or ignoring a separate period of existence of Polish literature. [...] prof. Maciej Urbanowski's objectivity deserves peculiar designation – he frequently quotes and bestows affirmative reviews of authors who have criticised the ethos of Solidarity and Polish patriotism for decades, but whose achievements in the 1980s are indisputable. [...] What is more, a crucial passage is devoted to the Pashquilanc fresh Roman Bratny "Year in a Coffin", discussing it with a unique peace. Rather, he does not apply a reduced fare to time - based unjust, even disrespectful, martial law literature texts. He discusses them objectively, but harshly; “perfidious” rightly calls the combination of martial law works with the accomplishments of socialist realism, due to the fact that completely different were the genesis, objectives, semantic content and the axiological value of both comparative collections of literary texts.
prof. dr hab. Krzysztof Dybciak, em. prof. UKSW in Warsaw
The author of the book “The Literature of the War of 1981–1989” Prof. Maciej Urbanowski presented in it a comprehensive model of Polish literature in the 1980s, and thus in times peculiarly crucial for Polish contemporary history, erstwhile Polish society organized in the Independent Local Professional Union “Solidarity” experienced severe trials in clash with totalitarian and oppressive power. The outstandingness of the book by Prof. Urbanowski is first and foremost evidenced by the way in which the subject was developed.
Below are any of the reviews of renowned literary scholars.
"The literature of the martial law 1981–1989" is simply a large technological accomplishment of prof. Maciej Urbanowski. This is an outstanding book, which, despite the author's modest declarations, challenges contemporary literature, which ignores the phenomenon of martial law literature. [...] Urbanowski's extraordinary and outstanding publication determines not only the taking up of the forgotten (or even unwanted) subject, which required investigation courage, but above all the way to make "war law literature". The book contains detailed information about the historical context of this literature, an unabsorbed wealth of information about magazines, publications, titles, editorials and works, and, above all, is simply a masterpiece, literaryly perfect presentation of the issues of individual works and the main topics of literary criticism accompanying martial law literature. [...] This work is finished, full, thoughtful and first in all element.
Prof. dr hab. Włodzimierz Bolecki, em. Prof. IBL PAN
It is simply a book that is technological and crucial for the national awareness of contemporary Poles. It presents a comprehensive model of our literature in the 1980s, saving from oblivion or ignoring a separate period of existence of Polish literature. [...] prof. Maciej Urbanowski's objectivity deserves peculiar designation – he frequently quotes and bestows affirmative reviews of authors who have criticised the ethos of Solidarity and Polish patriotism for decades, but whose achievements in the 1980s are indisputable. [...] What is more, a crucial passage is devoted to the Pashquilanc fresh Roman Bratny "Year in a Coffin", discussing it with a unique peace. Rather, he does not apply a reduced fare to time - based unjust, even disrespectful, martial law literature texts. He discusses them objectively, but harshly; “perfidious” rightly calls the combination of martial law works with the accomplishments of socialist realism, due to the fact that completely different were the genesis, objectives, semantic content and the axiological value of both comparative collections of literary texts.
prof. dr hab. Krzysztof Dybciak, em. prof. UKSW in Warsaw
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