The Competent Overview and Synthesis of Czech (Slovak) Polish Studies

In 2023, when Czech Polish studies commemorated the centenary of its institutional university activity, the middle and younger generation of Polonists came up with a key publication that is important not only for Czech polonistics, but also for Slavonic studies, linguistics, literary criticism and cultural studies as such. The truth is that Czech polonistics has some unpaid debts towards itself. The last comprehensive, real Czech history of Polish literature by Karel Krejčí was published in 1953, after which only overviews followed as part of a wider range of publications, dictionaries or partial studies (Jarmil Pelikán, Krystyna Kardyni Pelikánová, Ludvík Štěpán, Roman Madecki and others). Nowadays, this debt has been gradually repaid, and the resolution of new generations of Czech polonists is perhaps a guarantee that this activity will continue; after all, this book monograph is proof of that.