L’image de la littérature roumaine dans la Pologne de l’entre-deux-guerres. L’histoire d’un manuscrit inédit

The present paper centers around the discovery – in the Archives of Sciences PAN and PAU of Kraków – of a document of unique significance authored by Stanisław Łukasik, a Polish researcher in the field of Romanian culture. The manuscript, written in Romanian, contains a history of Romanian literature from its origins to the end of the interwar period, namely, 1938. The paper brings into relief St. Łukasik’s personality and reveals his interest in the Romanian culture expressed in his representative works in this domain. Moreover, it includes a description of the manuscript itself, delineating its structure, body and the level of the information content relevant to literary criticism and history. In addition to being highly valuable to literary studies through its documentary import, this item of research bears upon the Romanian-Polish cultural relationships against the backdrop of the general effervescence dominating both countries. Last but not least, the present paper foregrounds the role the Academic teaching exchanges are meant to play in the interaction between the two cultures.