„Więcej bajki niż bajronizmu”. Karol Irzykowski, Stanisław Przybyszewski i egotyczna historia literatury w dwudziestoleciu pisana
“More of a Fairy Tale than Byronism”. Karol Irzykowski, Stanisław Przybyszewski and the Egotic Literary History in the Interwar Period

Author(s): Marcin Jauksz
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Karol Irzykowski; Stanisław Przybyszewski; history of literature; egotism; anachronism; mid-war period
Summary/Abstract: The paper aims at the analysis of selected critical statements Karol Irzykowski made about Stanisław Przybyszewski, a pivotal figure in the Young Poland’s movement at the turn of the twentieth century. Against the background of other changes that occurred in the 1920s in Irzykowski’s approach to literary figures he formerly criticized, one can observe Irzykowski assumes a lenient attitude towards Przybyszewski that results from recognition of essential similarities between their artistic credos dating back twenty-five years and a feeling of generational affinity in terms of experiencing emotions such as loneliness, disappointment, and anxiety. Irzykowski recognises Przybyszewski’s literary straightforwardness as well as the authenticity of his memoirs and his play "Mściciel" [The Avenger], and explores his older colleague’s art and critical comments made while taking down facts about the most recent history of Polish literature.

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