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I can’t stop admiring the most recent issue of the Krakow-published “Autoportret” [1 (22) 2008], whose editors dedicated this entire number to the spaces of authority. An impressive iconographic material and superb writing transform the issue into a miniature album, whose different parts, even though varied in content, create a whole as well-defined as modern architecture, telling a story not only about the spaces of authority, but also about the authority of spaces.

All interviews published in "Kresy" strike a reader with great sadness. They all speak about poet's death and chaos surrounding him. Yet, I would like to draw attention to more cheerful aspects of his biography. Because, as Bohdan Rubchak stated, Karpowicz had also the ability to be sweet. If wanted, he could easily gain friends. An example of his charming abilities would be giving flowers to all women at university once a year. However he was admired mainly as an artist, philosopher and teacher. Students who managed to participate in his lectures had the chance to meet his extraordinary mind and sensibility.

Reaching the arts nowadays is often determined by promotion in which film criticism plays a considerable role. Critical texts, also those dealing with literature, are middlemen between the potential viewer and the work of art. Often we do use them before we reach for new books or films. When it comes to cinematography we do not find many studies, neither in foreign, nor in the Polish language. Therefore Chinese film lovers will surely appreciate the article Kino zza chińskiego muru. Filmy Jia Zhang-Ke / Cinema from behind the Chinese Wall. Films by Jia Zhang-Ke by Iwona Cegiełkówna ("Kino" no. 5/2008).