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I do not know whether the new issue of “Tygiel Kultury” [ 10-12 (154-156) 2008) will be published before Christmas. I am sure, however, that reading it is obligatory, especially around Christmas time. For the magazine offers a series of articles devoted to the question of cult, which becomes – if we are to believe in the diagnoses presented in “Tygiel” – one of the more important defining elements of contemporary culture.

The latest edition of „Tygiel Kultury” [7-9 (151-153) 2008] proves that it is right to regard melancholy as a figure, which perfectly characterizes the modern man. This periodical is very much attached to Łódź and usually shows the greatest preoccupation with its matters. What the magazine offers this time is a melancholic mode of exploration of the city. Łódź has been presented here as marked by loss. At the same time, a universal attempt to grow into the city has been made through evoking its past landscapes – both spiritual and architectural – which do not exist anymore.