„Sam sobie sterem”. O twórczości Stefana Kisielewskiego

The monograph concerns the entire oeuvre of Stefan Kisielewski. He was man of many talents. He published novels, journalistic texts on social and cultural topics, critical articles on both music and literature, and above all, feuilletons. It is difficult to separate Stefan Kisielewski as a private person from the phenomenon of Kisiel as an institution, Kisiel the man, from Kisiel the writer, journalist, composer, politician. He was one of the few well-known figures in whom all areas of life were so strongly and permanently intertwined. In the monograph, I discuss and analyze both the biography and the most important areas of Kisielewski’s expression to show him as a chronicler of the world, a man with an extraordinary socio-political-economic ear, whose primary goal was to convey the nature of the system in which he lived. The main idea of the monograph is to present the figure of a columnist, writer and a man who spent his entire life defending the fundamental values of Western civilization, which, without any ambiguity, were determinants of a normal, decent life, as well as the universal and timeless message of many of his diagnoses and observations regarding moral and social issues.