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Tuwim’s Dialogues with Banality

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Bocheński T., University of Lodz F. o. P., tomasz07@wp.pl

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica

2016

vol. 36

issue 6

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.

Witkacy’s Amusia

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Bocheński T., University of Lodz F. o. P., tomasz07@wp.pl

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica

2016

vol. 38

issue 8

Witkacy suffered from amusia as a child and as an adult person. He was seriously interested in music only for a little over twenty years (1890–1914?). He wrote his main works as an amusic. The relation between amusia and metaphysical feelings may suggest that Witkacy wrote dramas and created painting compositions in order to evoke the lost strangeness of being. Amusia could have also been the reason for Witkacy’s ambiguity – he was defending and degrading high art at the same time.

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2 Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica

2 Bocheński T.

2 University of Lodz F. o. P.

2 tomasz07@wp.pl

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