Dezorientacja
Disorientation

Summary/Abstract: The reviewer of the book After Twilight: Essays on Contemporary Opera byTomasz Biernacki and Monika Pasiecznik (Krytyka Polityczna Publishers, Warsaw 2013) remarks on the unique position this book holds in Poland, its transparency of style, and the competence of the authors. Unfortunately, the undeniable academic value of the publication is accompanied by excessive critical generalizations of phenomena not altogether suited to the character of the compositions under analysis, resulting, in Bardzik's view, from the book's insistent conformity to the publisher's profile. The author takes issue with over a dozen turns of phrase used in the book, calling attention to the poverty of the terminology, which is the publication's most serious drawback.

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