| dc.description.abstract | Stanisław Harla (1908–1977) Polish activist, a man of letters. Before World
War II activist in Union of the Youth of Rural Areas “Wici” in Mielec County,
the Republic of Poland, Małopolska Voivodeship of that time. In the mid-1930s,
Stanisław Harla was an active member of the Polish People’s Party. In 1936 and
1937 Harla took part in strikes taking place in Mielec County. The Great Peasant
Uprising was pacified by the government. Stanisław Harla was repeatedly persecuted
and questioned by the police. In 1939 while subjected to cruel, inhuman
interrogation procedure by the police, Harla sustained a spinal injury. After
World War II in the late 1940s, Harla, disappointed by the Polish People’s Republic
system, backed away from active political life. Harla is bracketed together
with outstanding popular poets. In his work Harla expressed the misery, injustice,
anguish and physical pain that peasants living in Polish villages felt. Through his
poems readers may picture the magical, beautiful Polish countryside of the time.
In the verses, the author considers the evanescence of human life and asks questions
about the sense of active participation in the history. In spite of everything,
throughout his life Harla was devoted to the idea of agrarianism and the people’s
movement. | pl_PL |
