[lbo-talk] Class and Kink

[Chris Doss]

Why so, more so than elsewhere? Is it a way of
revolting against the destruction of that system
brought about by the communists (seen as an outidee
anti-Polish force), or a means of asserting a Glorious
Past relative to Poland's current third-rate (maybe
second) status in Europe, both, or neither?

--- Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote:


> [WS:] Yeah.  If you listened to their bragging,
> every other Polack has
> aristocratic pedigree (the pre war census data show
> that landed gentry
> constituted something like 0.5% of the population). 
> My #1 was of
> aristocratic descent (by the paternal line - her
> father was a nationalized
> land owner, "between jobs" since then) - so I got a
> fairly good exposure to
> that crap.
> 
> But there are also writers like Gombrowicz
> (Ferdydurke) or Dolega-Mostowicz
> (Career of Nikodem Dyzma - plagiarized by Jerzy
> Kosinski as _Being There_)
> who mock them mercilessly.  
> 
> Wojtek
> 
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