Start, czyli powrót. Wokół Międzywojnia Jana Brzękowskiego
Journal Title: Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne - Year 2013, Vol 3, Issue 1
Abstract
Międzywojnie (1982) by Jan Brzękowski is a novel situating itself in the current of the “genealogy of avant-garde”. The writer, like other authors from the circle of the First Avant-garde, returns to his youth times, though the very return is determined by not only a nostalgic impulse, but also certain bitterness, deriving from the impossibility to find a place in the literary environment in emigration. Międzywojnie is at the same time a summary of his experiences and artistic achievements so far. The first part of the work, entitled Start is a flourishingly outlined portrait of generation entering adulthood alongside gaining independence by Poland, and a peculiar spiritual biography showing the basis of experiences of generation from which the authors from the circle of the “Nowa Sztuka” came. The second part, on the other hand, Collegium Novum, constitutes the continuation of earlier prose experiments by Brzękowski who, returning to strategies and solutions proposed a few decades earlier, wanted to underline not only their significance, but also up-to-dateness. Międzywojnie (1982) de Jan Brzękowski est un Roman qui se situe dans le courant de « généalogie de l’avant-garde ». L’écrivain, tout comme les autres auteurs du cercle de la Première Avant-garde, revient à la jeunesse, mais ce retour est impliqué non seulement par une impulsion nostalgique, mais aussi par une amertume, résultant de l’incapacité de retrouver sa place dans le milieu littéraire de l’émigration. Międzywojnie constitue le summum de ses expériences et ses réalisations artistiques. La première partie de l’oeuvre, intitulée Start, donne un portrait, peint avec élan, de la génération qui entre à l’âge adulte au moment où la Pologne retrouve son indépendance, c’est une biographie spirituelle qui montre le fond des expériences de la génération, dont les créateurs de la revue « Nowa Sztuka » sont issus. La seconde partie, Collegium Novum, constitue la continuation des expérimentations de prose antérieures de Brzękowski, qui, en revenant à des stratégies et solutions proposées quelques décades plus tôt, veut accentuer non seulement leur importance, mais aussi leur actualité.
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Aleksander Wójtowicz
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