Aliaksandr Fiaduta Started Working at a Prestigious Polish University
The literary critic and former political prisoner was invited to work as a research fellow at Jagiellonian University in Krakow.
"I was hired for a part-time position at the Department of Borderland Literary Culture of the Polonistics Faculty. As a research fellow with the status of an associate professor, I will be able to do what I know and love — write articles about the Belarusian-Russian-Polish borderland, my beloved Philomaths, and various personalities connected with the path of Adam Mickiewicz," Fiaduta told Nasha Niva.
The interlocutor admits that after his time in the penal colony, he was very worried about whether he would be able to fully engage in science, "whether prison had taken away his last brains," but the support and positive feedback from colleagues proved that everything was in order.
Fiaduta's first article, dedicated to the fate of Adam Mickiewicz's legacy in the archives of the 19th-century Russian political police, published in one of Poland's most prestigious literary publications — the journal "Pamiętnik Literacki" — and received the maximum possible score of 100 points.
"In Poland, there is a so-called point system — each of your articles is assigned a certain number of points depending on the language in which you published, the publication, the country, and so on. Later, these points are summed up, and they determine not only your status as a scientist, but also the status of your department and the university as a whole."
Currently, the researcher is working on several articles — on the topic of the Lithuanian component in Aleksey Tolstoy's dramatic trilogy, the fates of the Radziwills and the Nesvizh archives, and the work of the famous Polish journalist Józef Przecławski, who was born in Ruzhany.
Fiaduta writes his articles in Russian, and his colleagues help him with the translation.
"I speak Polish, read Polish, and the dean even forbade me to apologize for my 'bad' Polish, because, in his opinion, it is acceptable. But still, scientific articles should be translated by an experienced person."
It is not ruled out that in the future, the part-time position at the department will transform into a full-time one for the researcher.
"But for now, additional part-time work is relevant for me, so I will continue to give lectures in Poland and neighboring countries."
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