Złamane pióro eksliterata. O "Szkicach" Klina-Kaliszewskiego
A Former Man-of-Letters’ Broken Pen? Klin-Kaliszewski’s "Sketches"

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses a two-volume edition of Szkice [‘Sketches’] by a forgotten prose writer of the latter half of 19th century, who used the pseudonym ‘Klin’. A thesis is proposed that these texts may be associated with a modern essayistic discourse, to be justified by analysing the texts’ poetics – in particular, the way the author’s ‘I’ is shaped. Description of its kinship, but not identity, with the figures of decadent and dandy enables to reconstruct a sceptical-critical cognitive project comprised in the text, a specific anthropology and – finally – an ingenious creation of the subject.

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