Kozak w Brukseli, czyli Mariana Pankowskiego krytyczny zamysł na styku kultur
Cossack in Brussels. Marian Pankowski’s Critical Project in Between the Cultures

Summary/Abstract: The article attempts to reinterpret Marian Pankowski’s literary project. The author that has been marginally present in Polish reception, read once again in the context of modern theories and discourses reveals the maturity and timeliness of his themes, asking difficult questions concerning the identity of man in the 20th century. The author of Matuga is interested in the very foundations of pre-modern world; he asks questions about the sense of religion, meaning of the traditionally perceived concept of nationality and ‘functionality’ of pre--Victorian model of morality. In the article author’s conviction, such artistic attitude was possible only due to constant existence between the home country and the exile, between East and West, due to some ‘world-being’ that enabled him to ask a reader some difficult questions about condition of the contemporary man, question missing in Polish literature at that time. The author of the article is also convinced that the most important and interesting cultural (and literary) processes always take place at the borderlands, where different cultures, genres and identities meet. Such notion is based on postcolonial theory by Edward Said.

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