Romantyczny intelektualizm w Dzienniku nieciągłym Zygmunta Lubicz-Zaleskiego
Romantic Intellectualism in Dziennik nieciągły by Zygmunt Lubicz-Zaleski

Summary/Abstract: This study attempts to depict the complicated image of Zygmunt Lubicz-Zaleski (1882–1967) as an intellectual writer, whose spiritual formation suggest both the innovativeness of ideas and their intriguing anachronism. The intellectualism of the author of Relikwiarz buchenwaldzki spans in a very baffling way the space between Romantic and neo-Romantic influences and the modernist movement; this is manifested with full force by his Dziennik nieciągły set down in the years 1904–1925, partly as a dream and experience journal – inspired by the ideas of Andrzej Towiański, Adam Mickiewicz, the ‘genesis’ period of Juliusz Słowacki, and works of Zygmunt Krasiński – that was also an unparalleled diary of civic virtue. The most suggestive depiction of this is found in the preface to Dziennik (that was added only in 1967), where Lubicz-Zaleski – while discussing the question of his own diaristic style – performs a criticism of ‘Proustism’ from a clearly egocentric, ‘Rousseaian’ standpoint.

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