Paweł Huelle’s Troubles with Contemporaneity
Paweł Huelle’s Troubles with Contemporaneity

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this article is to present Paweł Huelle’s attitude towards contemporaneity, as well as to give an account of his literary traditionalism. The starting point of the considerations are comments on nostalgia as aesthetics and Huelle’s literary practice. The author shows how the writer avoided contemporary themes in his prose and to what consequences led the fact that in some works, as if in spite of himself, he addressed the current reality. The second part of the article considers the possibility of placing Huelle’s prose, especially two of his novels (Castorp and "Śpiewaj ogrody" [Sing the Gardens]), in a postmodern context, as well as the possibility of looking at this writer’s nostalgic works in a different way. The discussion closes with comments on the way in which Huelle evokes motifs and works belonging to high culture.

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