O nowym odczytaniu tekstów kasandrycznych literatury międzywojennej i wojennej – na drodze od monografii do antologii
On the New Reading of Cassandric Texts of Interwar and Wartime Literature – from a Monograph to the Anthology

Summary/Abstract: The text presents the way Bulgarian research projects create a new and double reception field (research and translation) for the Cassandric texts of Polish literature from the interwar and WWII periods. The project titled The World of Yesterday – Seen Through the Crisis of 1939. The Feeling for a Threatened Europe in the Cultures and Literatures of Bulgaria, Ukraine, Poland and Czechoslovakia lays the foundations of the following paper. The crucial aim of this text is to explain the conceptual transition from a published Polish monograph to the complete anthology, their parallelism and new elements of reception. The term Cassandric texts is used here in reference to texts of a prognostic, prophetic, catastrophic nature, containing warnings about the approaching war, and those written during the war. The term Cassandric is based on the motif of Cassandra present in Czesław Miłosz’s essay Śmierć Kassandrze (1945) and Jerzy Stempowski’s Esej dla Kassandry / Essay for Cassandra (1950). We search for records of these warnings in literary, journalistic and historical texts, as well as in the testimonies sent from Poland to the Allied countries via dangerous routes.

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