Dlaczego nie ma dziś Irzykowskiego?
Why is Irzykowski Missing?

Summary/Abstract: Karol Irzykowski (1873-1944) was one of Poland’s most important twentieth-century writers. His Pałuba (1903) is not only the earliest metafictional novel in Polish, but it can also be seen as the most radical prose experiment in European literature. As a literary, theatre and film critic, Irzykowski was respected for his originality, modern approach and principled stance. He set a benchmark for analytical thoroughness and fairness for decades to come. In recent years, however, interest in Irzykowski’s work seems to have experienced a rapid decline in both literature and criticism. Bolecki suggests that today’s literary culture and the mechanisms of the market have displaced the values on which the humanism of Irzykowski’s era had been founded – values such as independent judgement, the quest for truth, respect for science, disinterestedness and an uncompromising attitude.

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