Filmowość prozy, prozaiczność filmu. O filmowej adaptacji powieści Jarosława Iwaszkiewicza "Sława i chwała"
Film prose, proseativity of the film. About the film adaptation of the novel Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz "Fame and glory"

Summary/Abstract: Sława i chwała [Fame and Glory] by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz has been named as the author’s masterpiece. The work contains autobiographical elements and constitutes a summary of the writer’s ethical experiences, a historiosophical and philosophical synthesis. Only a few reviews have been published concerning the TV series adaptation, directed by Kazimierz Kutz under the auspices of the Polish Television in 1997. The first part of the article (Sensuality recoded) examines the specificity of the imagery of Iwaszkiewicz and Kutz, i.e. the translation of the sensuality of this prose to the language of cinema. Points 2–4 (Antiheroism, “Fame and Glory” as a social panorama, Dilemmas of a 20th-century artist) focus on the reading of the sense of the novel and the way the director relays it on the screen. The final considerations (Infamy) examine the causes of the commercial failure of the adaptation and make an attempt to evaluate the series. It turns out that, despite a modest budget and limited airtime, Kutz has preserved much of the spirit of the original work – it is still the same story about the end of a certain world.

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