Wyprawa po skrzynię posażną. Po lekturze "Toastu na progu" Andrzeja Mencwela

This article explores selected passages from Andrzej Mencwel’s autobiographical essay Toast na progu [Toast on the Threshold] in the context of recent literary and critical texts as well as artistic works that explore – and introduce to a broader public – the question of Polish culture’s peasant roots. Litwinowicz-Droździel focuses on the problems of civilization in Mencwel’s work and on his diagnoses regarding the current state of peasant culture.