Karol Irzykowski i „królewski łachman”. Przyczynek do nienapisanej książki o Polskiej Akademii Literatury
Karol Irzykowski and His “Królewski Łachman”: A Contribution to an Unwritten Book on the Polish Academy of Literature

Summary/Abstract: This article synthesises information scattered in memoirs and academic texts on Karol Irzykowski’s role he played in the press dispute in the period of 1918–1929 over the drafts and statutes of institutions such as the Polish Academy of Literature or the Literary Chamber, which were supposed to organise literary life and protect professional interests of writers, and also on his commitment to the Polish Academy of Literature, which operated between 1933 and 1939. The collected information reveals Irzykowski’s dynamically changing attitudes towards the institution of the Academy – he reviews its drafts, co-writes its statute, which he then declines, approves of its establishing, yet with resentment, only to accept his own appointment to become its member. All in all, Irzykowski turned out to be the most committed member of the institution, yet at the same time the least respected by other fellow academics.Karol Irzykowski, literary criticism 1918–1939, Polish Academy of Literature

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