Awangardowe oddźwięki
Avant-Garde Responses

Anna Świrszczyńska’s Poems and Poetic Prose of the 1930s

Summary/Abstract: The paper concentrates on Anna Świrszczyńska’s debut book; precisely on attempts to discuss its complex structure, combinations of various poetics, recurrent motifs. The collection, composed both of lyric sensu stricto and of poetic prose, is an interesting amalgamate of avant-garde, catastrophic, and surrealist trend (though rather employing the surrealist achievements). Important in the analysed pieces is also an indication of the role played by the art, oftentimes cloaked with the atmosphere of vitalism—so close to the Skamander diction. Bearing in mind that the poetess belonged to co-called Generation 1910, her peculiar distinctness, functioning outside literary groups, as well as her deriving from tradition and from the literary trends contemporary to her, the author of the article extracts the specificity of Świrszczyńska’s successful and mature debut in which parallel to dynamism one discerns darker tones indicating that her lyric collages were not only beautiful, but also referred to non-literary contexts: they stuck in catastrophic moods felt three years before the outbreak of the World War III.

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