WYZNACZNIKI PROZY WOJCIECHA ŻUKROWSKIEGO (część II)
Determinants of Wojciech Żukrowski’s Prose (part II)

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses three main features of Żukrowski’s literary output, namely political issues, fictitiousness and sensualism. Zofia Lipińska rightly stresses that fictitiousness is the first and most important feature of literature created by Żukrowski. The author of Kamienne tablice never downgraded plots or protagonists and never fell prey to a modern multi-gloss form. He followed great realists, such as J. Iwaszkiewicz, M. Dąbrowska, J. Kawalec and W. Myśliwski. Political issues of the prose of Żukrowski is most fully revealed in Mądre zioła, Dni klęski, a short story entitled Kwasoodporni, as well as Plaża nad Styksem or a novel Kamienne tablice. At times, political elements in Zukrowski’s prose decrease its literary value. The works of the author of Lotna suffer because the writer is unable to present his opinion on important or difficult matters (e.g. the fate of the Home Army in post-war Poland, the September Campaign of 1939, distortions of socialism which led to the October breakthrough of 1956 or a political crisis in 1968). The present article argues that Żukrowski deserves to be called a writer – sensualist.

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