Polish men and women of letters in the night of 12th/13th May 1935

• Authors: Majchrowski Z.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

In the night of 12th/13th May 1935, at a name-day party held at Zofia Nalkowska's salon in Warsaw, the crowd of attending writers are receiving a telephone message about Józef Pilsudski's death. The attendees get all of a sudden confronted against a necessity to redefine their social situation, the behavioural strategies assumed by them appearing quite varied. Basing upon a total of seven literary accounts of the participants (incl. diarist records by Maria Dabrowska and Zofia Nalkowska; recollections by Maria Kuncewiczowa, Kazimierz Wierzynski, Antoni Slonimski, Witold Gombrowicz, Alfred Laszowski), the author has attempted at reconstructing the evening's events - looking for what is referential whilst what he effectively finds is mostly discrepancies. Nonetheless, whatever appears incoherent, inconsistent, uncertain as regards the facts, can be read in a different perspective: namely, as certain idiomatic representations of an experience.

Keywords

EN

PILSUDSKI JÓZEF; POLISH LITERATURE

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Teksty Drugie (Second Texts)
• Year: 2006
• Issue: 6(102)
• Pages: 34-42
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Majchrowski Z.

• Z. Majchrowski, Uniwersytet Gdanski, ul. Bazynskiego 1a, 80-952 Gdansk, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07PLAAAA01984215