he article addresses instances of the reception of Juliusz Słowacki’s Król- -Duch in Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz’s life and works; it is based on Iwaszkiewicz’s memoirs, diaries, reviews, literary texts, correspondence with his wife Anna, and the marginalia left on the copies of Król-Duch remaining in the poet’s archive in Podkowa Leśna. The article also includes a critical edition of the three texts on Król-Duch by Iwaszkiewicz, published in “Wiadomości Literackie” in 1924, 1925, and 1927. The first two texts critically review Słowacki’s narrative poem, the third is a literary sketch putting Król-Duch side by side with Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time.
The author explores the reception of Wladyslaw Reymont’s writings in Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz’s literary critique, looking at his memoirs, diaries, the reviews he wrote, his correspondence and literary works. The article also features a translation and edition of Iwaszkiewicz’s article Un douloureux anniversaire. Stefan Zeromski et Wladyslaw Reymont - hitherto unpublished in Polish - which first appeared in the francophone monthly ‘Pologne Litteraire’ in 1926 (no. 2).
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