Bez gniewu i bezstronnie. Dlaczego Maria Dąbrowska nie obroniła Marka Hłaski

Abstract

The article presents the complex history of Maria Dąbrowska's article Sine ira et studio, written in defence of Marek Hłasko who became the target of an aggressive press campaign after he had not returned to the country from a foreign scholarship. It also reminds why the party leadership headed by W. Gomułka declared the author of The First Step in the Clouds [Pierwszy krok w chmurach] persona non grata. In 1984 J. Piórkowski published Dąbrowska's text. And although she had been dead for almost twenty years - her article met with violent reception from K. Koźniewski who with his column commentary proved that in the first half of the 80s the attitude of party columnists towards literature and rebellious writers was as doctrinaire and uncompromising as in the 50s. The language of newspaper polemics did not change nor arguments - there remained only helplessness against propaganda lies and manipulation of facts.