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“Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.”

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Andrzej Wajda
Andrzej Wajda

Andrzej Wajda, born on March 6, 1926 and died on October 9, 2016, was a prominent Polish film director. His works profoundly reflected the history and culture of Poland, and he was regarded as one of the representatives of Polish cinema. more

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