press review
…YOU CAN LOSE YOUR HEART HERE
The editorial team of “Więź” magazine in its April issue (4/2006) undertook a risky task of asking a question whether one can like Warsaw. A post-war song gives a positive answer, however, nowadays the unambiguous appraisal is being questioned. It is a result of an individual, rather than collective, experience of the capital city dwellers. What do the magazine guests: writers, historians, architects, anthropologists and a theologian, invited to share their thoughts about Warsaw have in common apart from their place of abode? They are aware that one cannot free oneself from the legacy of the city and they find it necessary to take a stand on its alleged boorishness, decline of moral standards, eclecticism and fragmentary nature – an exceptionally trendy epithet that supposedly reflects the nature of Warsaw in the best way.