He Is Coming Back!... Stanisław Przybyszewski’s Poetic Prose in Critical Edition Cover Image

On wraca!... Proza poetycka Stanisława Przybyszewskiego w wydaniu krytycznym
He Is Coming Back!... Stanisław Przybyszewski’s Poetic Prose in Critical Edition

Rev.: Stanisław Przybyszewski, Proza poetycka. Pentalogia: Requiem aeternam. – Z cyklu Wigilii. – De profundis. – Androgyne. – Nad morzem. Wstęp, edycja, komentarze i dodatek krytyczny Gabriela Matuszek-Stec. (Kraków 2022). Dzieła literackie. Edycja

Author(s): Tomasz Sobieraj
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: poetic prose; prose poems; Stanisław Przybyszewski; modernist prose; critical edition

Summary/Abstract: The first volume of critical edition of Stanisław Przybyszewski’s writings, which includes poetic prose, is an exceptional achievement of Polish scientific editorship prepared by Gabriela Matuszek-Stec. The review highlights the content matter and textological significance of the edition. The book contains Przybyszewski’s five epic poems: “Requiem aeternam”, “Z cyklu Wigilii” (“Vigils”), “De profundis”, “Androgyne”, and “Nad morzem” (“At the Seaside”), and is composed of Polish language texts and fragments of their versions in German. Matuszek-Stec foreworded the text with a comprehensive introduction and authored numerous commentaries, as well as considered and carefully reconstructed textual variants of the poems. Przybyszewski’s pieces are presented here in their full complexity as pieces of great cognitive valour and high artistic values.

  • Issue Year: 113/2022
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 251-256
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Polish
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