„Opowieść się opowiedziała. Tylko to było jej i moim celem [...]”
“Opowieść się opowiedziała. Tylko to było jej i moim celem [...] [The Story Has Been Told. Only That Was My and Its Purpose <...>]”

On Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz’s “Polish Tetralogy”

Summary/Abstract: Subsequent volumes of Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz’s “Polish tetralogy” have raised controversies that reach far beyond the standard literary-critical debate. The reception of the cycle, also due to its author’s open support for national-catholic wing on the Polish political stage, was marked by sharp distinction into affirmers, who saw in the poet a new national poet-prophet, and politically-motivated critics of nationalist (bloody) vision of Polishness. The dispute was accompanied by a discussion concerning whether Rymkiewicz’s writing—inventive and abound in irony—is indeed subject to political interpretations, and whether or not such readings of his stories lead to certain simplifications. Referring to Hayden White’s papers, the researcher shows that it is literariness that makes up the tetralogy’s political potential.

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