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The present paper aims at showing the uniqueness two novels by Jacek Bochenski: The Divine Julius and Naso the Poet against a background of post-war Polish literature. It dissociates from contributory and anecdotal readings of the analysed novels, as well as from setting them in a context of Polish socialism. The author of the paper proposes reading in the background of ideas and conceptions developed on the ground of European and American (post)modernism. Additionally it points at autothematic character of and Naso the Poet, and at the proposal of literature contained in the novel.