Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk

In Poland and Central and Eastern Europe, critics and historians have rarely addressed the question of a serious impact of George Sand on the literatures of these regions, nor have they bothered to list possible references to her works. This is surprising, given that she was an author whose work, as it is well known, was explicitly present in different spheres of readership for a few decades at least, and it seems therefore impossible that she should have had no influence at all on the ideosphere, as well as on the aesthetic and cultural models of these places.

This conference intends to fill this gap, and in this sense, it is a first one in Poland. It would like to pay tribute to George Sand in two ways: on one hand, it aims to highlight her role as a producer of culture, and thus examine the phenomenon of “sandism" and its dissemination in Poland and in Central and Eastern Europe; on the other hand, the conference aims to examine as systematically as possible the way in which the works of the French writer have been received, read and understood in these regions. This approach acknowledges the intense development of Sand reception studies in other countries.