„Okazja do samookreśleń”. Julian Przyboś wobec Karola Irzykowskiego w dwudziestoleciu międzywojennym
"An opportunity for self-determination." Julian Przyboś towards Karol Irzykowski in the interwar period

Author(s): Agnieszka Kwiatkowska
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: dispute over metaphor; Cracow avant-garde; polemics of the interwar period; Karol Irzykowski; Julian Przyboś
Summary/Abstract: The article shows how the attitude of Julian Przyboś to Karol Irzykowski developed and evolved. As a young poet of the Cracow avant-garde, Przyboś perceived Irzykowski as a recognized critic and a writer of great authority. In his views, he particularly valued the critical attitude towards the Young Poland movement, the rejection of derivativeness, and respect for the originality of literary achievements. The dispute with the outstanding critic, who accurately pointed to the weaknesses of avant-garde aesthetic ideas, was an opportunity for Przyboś to clarify and summarize his own views, different from Irzykowski’s and Peiper’s. The disputes between Karol Irzykowski and Julian Przyboś reflected ideas clashing in the interwar period and constituted an essential element of literary life.

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