W gościnie i u siebie. Karol Irzykowski w „Skamandrze”, „Ponowie” i „Krokwiach”
As a Guest and at Home. Karol Irzykowski in “Skamander”, “Ponowa” and “Krokwie”

Author(s): Radosław Okulicz-Kozaryn
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: interwar period; avant-garde literary movements; Young Poland movement; Skamandrites; authors of “Ponowa”; programophobia; “Krokwie”; constructionalism
Summary/Abstract: In the years 1919–1922 Karol Irzykowski cooperated with three literary magazines: “Skamander”, “Ponowa” and “Krokwie”. As a literary critic, he tried not only to get to know new poetic movements, but also to influence them. He believed that they were a continuation of avant-garde ideas and pre-war experiments in which he took part. Therefore, he used the common name of “The Young Poland” for the competing environments of “Skamander” and “Ponowa” and demanded from everyone an artistic awareness expressed primarily in programs. Irzykowski’s reaction to Skamandrites reluctant to formulate such programs was his famous article “Programophobia”; in “Ponowa” he appreciated programming tendencies, but had many objections to the practice of poets associated with it. Despite being a member of the editorial committees of both journals, he expressed reservations about them, which, in turn, provoked their authors to ironic reactions. The cooperation between Irzykowski and the magazine “Krokwie” looked different, promoting the direction created in pre-war Lviv – constructionalism. He hoped that “Krokwie” would allow him to develop his own works, which was not possible in “Skamander” or in “Ponowa”.

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