In her early short story entitled Ultimus Konopnicka accomplished the concept of Falkentheorie by Paul Heyse in an original way, using the motif of a crane as the thematic and composition keystone. Inspired to a large ...

The topic of the interview with Nicolás Hochman is primarily the activity of the Congreso Gombrowicz, an Argentinian group organizing scholarly and popular scientific events in Buenos Aires devoted to the work and legend ...

The obvious difficulties notwithstanding, Bolesław Leśmian’s poetry has been translated into over a dozen languages of a varied degree of affinity with Polish. The diverse strategies adopted, the differences in quality and ...

The interpretations included in the paper refer to the motif of the plait which appeared in different genre forms of Bolesław Leśmian’s writing. Part one offers an introduction to its most important symbolic meanings: ...

The essay presents an interpretation of Bolesław Leśmian’s poem entitled Topielec (The Drowned), which has already been the subject of interest of many different scholars. The author of the essay draws attention to the ...

In his book Poeta w labiryncie historii. Studia o pisarskich rolach Jerzego Ficowskiego (Poet in the labyrinth of history. Studies on writer’s roles of Jerzy Ficowski) Jerzy Kandziora strives to provide a holistic outlook ...

Essay writing by Bolesław Leśmian, a graduate of law, draws attention not only to the presence of the philosophical or sociological context but also the legal one while his poetry seems to be completely detached from legal ...

The paper, being a postscript to the book Miejsca Leśmiana. Topika recepcji krytycznoliterackiej (Leśmian’s places. The topos of critical reception) (2011), outlines the history of literary criticism reception of Bolesław ...

The paper is aimed at tracing the motif of the poet’s failure in the context of the poetological project, articulated most vividly by Bolesław Leśmian in his literary essays, but also developed in numerous poems with ...

The paper is aimed at describing the transgressive anthropological model of Leśmian’s late poetry. The research was inspired by poetic activities of the poet himself, who in his poem Zwiewność (Ethereality) created a new ...