Tuwim’s Dialogues with Banality

• Authors: Bocheński, Tomasz

Abstracts

EN

The article examines the relation between Tuwim’s poetry and modern colloquial language. The avant-garde artists for whom in the beginning of the 20th-century art was an elite occupation, treated every-day speech as a mass form of communication. Tuwim’s poetry was frequently criticised for banality. Matywiecki presents the poet as a hero fighting with the demon of commonness. The crucial thesis of the article is that banality which is modified in a creative way says more about the epoch than elitist visions. In his poetry, satire and cabaret work Tuwim transformed triviality into dialog and a common human being into a creative person. Transition of the street talk into original speech is the defence against reducing individual being to cliché which means the fear of 20th-century killing ideologies.

Keywords

EN

Julian Tuwim; Tuwim’s poetry; 20th-century literature; avant-garde

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 36
• Issue: 6

Dates

published

2016

Contributors

author

Bocheński, Tomasz

other

University of Lodz, Faculty of Philology, Department of 20th and 21st century Polish Literature

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Identifiers

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/11089/21842

DOI

10.18778/1505-9057.36.16