Uniwersum arcydzieł. Dyskurs krytycznoliteracki w listach Norwida
The Universe of Masterpieces. The Critical Discourse in Norwid's Letter

Summary/Abstract: Cyprian Norwid’s correspondence is an important element of his critical reflection. Fromthe critical remarks contained in it the image of literature appears as a collection of masterpiecessituated in the space of eternal truths and universal values based on the highest intellectual,moral and esthetic standards. According to Norwid a critic’s role consists mainly in searchingfor outstanding works and recording crucial literary facts. In his assessment of contemporaryliterary life, however, Norwid used the above rules in an inconsistent way: vast areas of Polishliterature of those times (among them being the 19th century novel) remained outside his criticaljudgments, and his opinions resulted not only from his absolutist strategy of “trackingdown masterpieces”, but also from accidental reading practice of a “usual” reader entangled ineveryday life.

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