„Śmiałość wyobraźni nieodzowna socjalistycznemu pisarzowi”
“Daring Imagination Indispensable to A Socialist Writer”

The Contestative Dimension of Bruno Jasieński’s Prose

Author(s): Karolina Kulpa
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Sociology, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: contestation; utopia; avant-garde; Bruno Jasieński; I Burn Paris; imagination
Summary/Abstract: This article attempts to capture the contestative dimension of Bruno Jasieński’s prose works. More precisely, the author is interested in the role of political imagination, which is revealed not only in the space of the presented world, but also results directly from the writer’s own creative attitude. The novel „I Burn Paris” is read as one of the versions of avant-garde prose and as a text that in a non-obvious way draws attention to the limited possibilities of the language of literature and the ways of influencing, by unmaskingly creating alternative, utopian visions of reality.

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