Irzykowski – prekursor Witkacego, broń Boże – poprzednik
Irzykowski – Witkacy’s Precursor, not (God Forbid!) Predecessor

Author(s): Tomasz Bocheński
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: polemics; metatext; essential conversations; Witkacy; Karol Irzykowski
Summary/Abstract: This essay offers an analysis of the rhetoric of the dispute between Irzykowski and Witkacy that takes into account both artists’ strong statements of opinions as an indication of their hidden recurring resentments. In the essay, the dispute is interpreted as a duel between two unrecognised intellectuals accusing each other of anachronisms and honouring themselves with a label of a precursor. What is more, the author of the essay points out how the nature of this psychomachy-like dispute manifests itself with a constant violation of by and large accepted ethical norms of an artistic dispute of which the two were eager proponents.

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