„Królewski łachman” i „pomnik elity warszawskiej”. Rekonstrukcja nienapisanej książki Karola Irzykowskiego o Polskiej Akademii Literatury
“The Royal Rags” and the “Monument to Warsaw Elite”. The Reconstruction of Karol Irzykowski’s Unwritten Book about the Polish Academy of Literature

Author(s): Agata Zawiszewska
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Karol Irzykowski; literary criticism; Polish Academy of Literature
Summary/Abstract: This article synthesises information scattered in memoirs and academic texts: on Karol Irzykowski’s role in the press dispute of 1918–1929 over the drafts and statutes of institutions which were to organise literary life and protect the professional interests of writers (Polish Academy of Literature, Literary Chamber), and also on his work at the Polish Academy of Literature, which existed in the years 1933–1939. This information reveals Irzykowski’s dynamically changing views on the Academy, the drafts of which he reviewed, the statutes of which he first co-wrote and then rejected, and the establishment of the Academy into existence – which he received with resignation, but nevertheless accepted his own appointment to it. In the end, Irzykowski turned out to be the most committed, and at the same time the least respected by other academics, member of the institution.

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