Pierwiastek norwidyczny, czyli Norwid Irzykowskiego
A Norwidian Element, or Norwid in Irzykowski’s Writing

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on a lesser-known issue regarding the reception of Norwid’s work andat the same time it goes beyond the perspective of reception research and points to severalsignificant relationships between thought, aesthetics, literary sensitivity and intellectualbiography of both authors. The perspective assumed here is then partly comparative, andpartly reconstructing more or less obvious inspirations. Irzykowski rarely wrote about Norwidor referred to him (the issue of incomprehensibility is best known), while many of hisconcepts are worth confrontation with Norwid’s analogical ideas. Moreover, in many casesthe author of Quidam seems to be a silent adversary of Irzykowski, unnamed, but coreflectingin the margins of the text. Undoubtedly, both of them meet at key points as to theirunderstanding of tragedy, irony, and the “pałuba” [hag] element, which is one of the mostimportant concepts of Irzykowski, has its discursive counterparts in Norwid’s reflection.

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