‘Emotion more lasting than great walls turned to rubble’. Between tradition and the modern: Irzykowski on Żeromski Cover Image

„Wzruszenie trwalsze niż ściany gmachów obróconych w gruz”. Między tradycją a nowoczesnością: Irzykowski wobec Żeromskiego
‘Emotion more lasting than great walls turned to rubble’. Between tradition and the modern: Irzykowski on Żeromski

Author(s): Sylwia Panek
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne
Keywords: Karol Irzykowski; Stefan Żeromski; literary criticism

Summary/Abstract: This paper shall discuss Karol Irzykowski’s views on the prose work of Stefan Żeromski. The shifting nature of the former towards the latter – author of Ludzie Bezdomni [The Homeless] 1899 – shall be examined; ones that changed from criticism to approval. In this context Irzykowski’s critical concept developed in his collection of essays, Czyn i słowo [Action and the Word] 1913, shall be taken into account and it shall also be argued that Irzykowski’s polemical discourse in respect to Żeromski was an integral part of his literary manifesto.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 27
  • Page Range: 283-308
  • Page Count: 26
  • Language: Polish