The Black Seasons (Czarne sezony)

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About the Author: Michał Głowiński (1934) was born in Warsaw into a Jewish family which was deported to the ghetto at the beginning of the war. He was one of the Jewish children saved by Irena Sendlerowa’s team in the children’s part of Żegota which was the Polish Council to Aid Jews. After World War II, Głowiński became a distinguished literary researcher and critic, on top of being a professor at both the University of Warsaw and of Cracow. He is well known for his analysis of Communist newspeak (Totalitarian Speech [Nowomowa po polsku], 1990) as well as the various ways of reception of literary works (reader-response theory) (Styles of Reception, 1971), in addition to his student and academic handbooks of Polish literature. He was also engaged in the Solidarity movement during the Communist regime.