Eastern European Culture

And Southern-American and Asian high-class art and literature being known also probably is due to Western cultural bias I suppose?

Asian art isn't known anywhere. Fucking anime is more known than any Asian art (except maybe their shunga porn).

My point is that it's hard to fully judge one country's culture without understanding its perspective, language, etc. Every culture has works that requires specific perspective to get. Poles usually wrote for themselves, thus their old works usually have unique themes, impossible to undertand for others, like Polish language twists, folklore references, "Christ of nations" etc.
Still, since 19th century Polish literature could be more undertanded, and so writers like Conrad, Sienkiewicz, Reymont, Gombrowicz, Kapuscinski, Kosiński, Miłosz, Szymborska, Lem, Sapkowski earned recognition abroad.

it's so easy to tell when the thread was made by a stupid american

Show me broadly internationally known Polish painters from the time of the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth.
Show me one book from the time, where most people around the world would at least have heard the name of.

only because you are dumb mutt doesnt mean something isnt irrelevant or known outside of place where you live

Not him but
>Show me broadly internationally known Polish painters from the time of the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth.
Wojciech Bobowski (lived from his art in Ottoman empire)
Teodor Lubieniecki (became a court painter of Prussian king)
Martin Theophil Polak (became a court painter of Austrian duke Leopold V)
Bartholomeus Strobel (served on court of Rudolph II Habsburg)
>Show me one book from the time, where most people around the world would at least have heard the name of.
There are few books in the world majority of the world would solidarly recognise. I don't know why would you expect Poland to be in such place. But I assure you every well-read man recognises "Quo Vadis", "Solaris" or "The Witcher"

>Albrecht Dürer
Um, user...

Pleb.

Here, a famous Polish composer
youtube.com/watch?v=9E6b3swbnWg

>19th century Russophilia
Literally never existed. What the fuck are you talking about?
Well for most it was because of foreign domination. Czechs, Slovaks and South Slavs spent most of the early modern period under foreign rulers, and their culture was suppressed directly or indirectly.
Besides, Russian high culture really exploded only in 19th century, before that they didn't do much.
As for Poles, I don't know, guess their upper class was just shitty. Can't really think of some excuse for them. Poles were a quarter of Imperial Russian nobility yet only relevant guy I can think of is Bolshevik Dzerzhinsky. Sure, they had some writers and composers, but nothing spectacular considering their numbers and history.

>The only famous Eastern European artists or poets usually grew big under foreign rule or after leaving their respective countries, like a German writing Kafka from Prague or Chopin moving to Paris.
>migrate to west
>westerners start to notice you
woah...

the real reason is that eastern european countries missed cool era of early nationalism and were under occupation which made their stuff appealing only to their own people

Too much logic
Delete

Chopin was already famous in Poland before he became famous in the West

After all, he would often play at Belweder
And Belweder was a palace where the most important Poles would gather or live

Poland and Lithuania had high culture.

>I assure you every well-read man recognises "Quo Vadis", "Solaris" or "The Witcher"
Cringe

Poland, Germany and France were the very first countries to jump on the nationalism train

Polish nationalism was ignited by Napoleon at the very beginning of 19th century

The Manuscript found at Saragossa is universally acclaimed and recognized as a hugely important piece of literature. Reading it in English is what convinced me to learn Polish

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_optimo_senatore Was popular in England after being translated.

There is a theory that the character Polonius from Shakespeare's Hamlet is inspired by this book.

*enters the arena*

hmm

>never read Grzegorz Zachiczszlenski's 'Death of Ksziszko'
>never seen Kszisztof Wisledupski's 'Triumph if Mieszko'
>never listened to Czieslaw Zaczsztopowski's 'Potato Elegies'

You are a pleb user.

Nothing amuses me more than West smugness towards Eastern Europe as the West falls further.
Poland homicide rate 0.74
French homicide rate 1.54 and rising.

>you will see West Europe turn into South Africa in your lifetime

you not being educated is what happened

>Wisledupski
kek

>Poland homicide rate 0.74
>French homicide rate 1.54 and rising.
Nice cherrypicking faggot
Russia homicide rate 11.31
Lithuania homicide rate 5.98
Moldova homicide rate 3.19
vs
Austria homicide rate 0.51
Norway homicide rate 0.56
Spain homicide rate 0.66

He meant France as "good" example. For many centuries Polacks looked up to France as something you want to be.

youtube.com/watch?v=goeOUTRy2es

western education is a joke, you ppl can only rob and shit on ppl with spears, any serious hardship will make you fall

That almost feels surreal nowadays.

I don't know if it is high-class (whatever that means) but my home is filled with polish literature and polish art. Maybe you have difficulty translating slavic literature? Our language is sanskrit level.

Do people in the west not know writers such as Dostojevsky

>Norway homicide rate 0.56
It was fun while it lasted Sven

You better watch that mouth or you won't get any more gibs.

You better watch that mouth or the oil runs down.

>TFW oil runs out in norway and they go back to do what they did for centuries prior: bunch of fishermen who do jack shit

Tbh if they become poor that would be a good thing in the long run because poor countries get no migrants.

>that would be a good thing in the long run
imagine being this retarded