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Biweekly, Dwutygodnik's English version, is online!

09.05.2010

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A year after Dwutygodnik's first issue it was clear that its English version is a necessity. Why? Because we wanted to share. Hence Biweekly.pl came into existence.

But why poems, ABCs, notes? Why electric, side effects, views? Why briefly and who’s who and why? Why all this talking and writing? We came upon such a sentence: ‘culture is not an obligation, one can do very well without it’ (Kot Jeleński). And we do not dare to state otherwise.

Yet, there are those, who, for some reason, do not want to live without it. Maybe they do remember Witold Gombrowicz and, just like him, they desire culture without all this juvenility and senile atrophy, butterflies and rainbows, dust and exaltation, patriotic and pseudo-intellectual demands. We once read in his ‘Diaries’ the following words: ‘literature is threatened with becoming a soft-boiled egg, while being, which is its calling, a hard-boiled egg.’

I egg your pardon? It’s not just literature that's endangered. We try not to limit ourselves. We try to be sharp. We are ironic (but not sarcastic), we take it easy (but not painlessly) and, above all, we say: there is no obligation ‘to be cultured.’ And that’s where our slogan comes into play: link with culture. Polish culture, because that’s us, but also with all its unpredictable forms that connect through cultural supranational diversity.