„Krzyk Majakowskiego”. Socrealizm a awangarda
“Mayakovsky’s Cry.” Socialist Realism and Avant-Garde

Summary/Abstract: The article’s main goal is an attempt to reflect on the attitude of socialist realism criticism to avant-garde movements. The starting point was Wiktor Woroszylski’s sketch “Batalia o Majakowskiego (Struggle for Mayakovsky)” which launched a subsequent fervent discussion about the condition of contemporary Polish poetry, and brought up a question regarding the limits of sovietization of Polish literature. Following the ambiguous process of Mayakovsky’s canonization in the Polish press of that period, the author’s main focus is to present the distortions made to the understanding of the term “avant-garde,” as well as to answer the question why the figure of Mayakovsky was to have become the most vital point of reference for Polish literature.

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