Niebyła debata o niedojrzałości kultury: Karol Irzykowski wobec Tadeusza Boya-Żeleńskiego
A Debate on Cultural Immaturity That Didn’t Take Place: Karol Irzykowski and Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński

Author(s): Mateusz Chmurski
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Karol Irzykowski; Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński; literary criticism; cultural immaturity; Beniaminek
Summary/Abstract: The article proposes an analysis of Karol Irzykowski’s Beniaminek (Benjamin, 1933), a study and an attack on the literary critic and translator Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński’s activity and writings as well as the reaction of the criticized author. The former’s work reveals to be rather an extensive defence of Irzykowski’s critical writings, and the latter’s answer – a pamphlet. Their dialogue (that didn’t take place) is situated in the context of Polish (and Central-European) cultural immaturity.

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