Ślady egzystencji. Dzienniki – sploty życia i twórczości w literaturze Europy Środkowej (1890–1920): Csáth, Irzykowski, Klíma
Traces of Existence. Diaries – the Interweaving of Life and Creativity in Central European Literature (1890-1920): Csáth, Irzykowski, Klíma

Author(s): Mateusz Chmurski
Subject(s): History, Language and Literature Studies, Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: autobiographism; self-referentiality; intimate diary; modernity; Central Europe
Summary/Abstract: The book presents common threads of life and work of Karol Irzykowski (1873-1944), Ladislav Klíma (1878-1928) and Géza Csáth (1883-1919) as potentially representative for modernism (and the experience of modernity) in Central European literatures and cultures in the transnational and comparative perspective. The starting point for reflection are diaries, in which the self-record becomes the matrix of innovative prose of the three authors as well as the inspiration for (autobiographically marked) critical-literary reflection on the borderline of Irzykowski’s culture theory, Klíma's anti-system philosophy and Csáth’s exploration of the limits of literature and psyche.

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