Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński: Une critique littéraire engagée dans l’exploration de la vie et de l’autonomie de l’art
Journal Title: Prace Polonistyczne - Year 2017, Vol 0, Issue
Abstract
The aim of this article is to demonstrate how the Polish literary critic and translator Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński achieved two contrasting goals in his work. The author shows how important the context, external to the ground of the literary work itself, is for Boy, (and he reflects on the specific reasons why Boy adopts this attitude), while also describing the way Boy refuses simultaneously to consider it as a clue which could allow us to decode the meaning and deeper senses of a literary work. Moreover, Boy emphasizes the means great writers used to invent in order to transform reality in his own art and to insert the figures they created into an immanent dynamic evolution of literary patterns. The author sets forth a thesis that Boy’s method of digging out the genuine form of the works he analysed was due to the careful attention he gave to the oral and, more broadly, the sonic dimension of human experience, which to him was a source of constant fertilization. At the same time, the article explores the way this sensibility to sounds was deeply rooted in Boy’s direct life experiences — his relationship both to Paris and to the modernist literary movement called Young Poland “Młoda Polska” led by such outstanding figures as Stanisław Przybyszewski and Stanisław Wyspiański with whom Boy frequented Cracow’s various cafés and theatres as a young man.
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Piotr Biłos
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- DOI 10.26485/PP/2017/72/12
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