Epigramy Izabelli Czermak na tle dyskusji krytycznoliterackich lat czterdziestych
Reading Izabella Czermak’s Epigramy (Epigrams) Through the Lens of Polish Literary Criticism of the 1940s

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses a collection of epigrams written during the Holocaust by a lesserknownPolish-Jewish poet Izabella Czermak, who survived the war on the “Aryan side” andparticipated in Polish literary life after the war (some of her epigrams were published in1947). The article studies Czermak’s epigrams in the light of several questions raised byPolish literary criticism of the time, such as poeticity, irony, realism, and surrealism. Thearticle discovers close parallels between Czermak’s poetry and her prose memoirs, anddiscusses Czermak’s prewar friendship with Bruno Schulz.

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