Polskie przekłady ostatnich tomów cyklu powieściowego Marcela Prousta
Polish Translations of Last Volumes of Marcel Proust’s Novel Cycle

Ideological Problems of the 1940s and 1950s

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the Polish reception of Marcel Proust’s work (from negation through acceptance, and finally affirmation) in the years 1950–1965. It starts with a description of Stalinism night which combated bourgeois culture of which “rotten West’s Proust” (Jan Kott’s sketches, for example) was an icon. Later, the author shows Paweł Hertz’s stance abundant in dissonances and Polish translations of Proust’s novels as well as acceptance of the fact that Proust is a vital writer for Polish literature of that period.

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