Zadania inteligencji. Współpraca Romana Jaworskiego z Robotnikiem w kontekście jego działalności publicystycznej
Tasks of the intelligentsia. Roman Jaworski’s collaboration with Robotnik in the context of his journalism

Summary/Abstract: The article aims to present Roman Jaworski’s (1883–1944) contributionsas a literary and theatrical reviewer with the magazine Robotnik, the organ of thePolish Socialist Party, in 1933. Meanwhile, setting it in the context of the writer’sentire journalistic activity. Roman Jaworski is still best known for his debut collec-tion of short stories, Historie Maniaków (1910), and his project of ‘difficult andugly’ grotesque art. His roles as a political publicist and theatrical reviewer havebeen virtually forgotten or are not given much importance today. But these workwas abundant and accompanied the writer throughout most of his life, and thusreflect Jaworski’s search for the most appropriate option for firstly regaining inde-pendence of Poland, then developing and rebuilding the new state. In the article,I focus on Jaworski’s texts, additionally comparing them with the reviews of Irzy-kowski – the writer’s partner and mentor since 1911 – in terms of their attitude topolitics and the discussion of art and criticism.

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