Irzykowski, Karol

Irzykowski, Karol

▪ Polish author and critic
born January 25, 1873, Błaszkowa, Austria-Hungary [now in Poland]
died November 2, 1944, Żyrardów, Poland

      Polish novelist and literary critic well known for his rejection of realism, which he considered a pretense.

      Educated at the University of Lwów (now the University of Lviv), Irzykowski moved in 1908 to Kraków, where he joined the editorial board of Nowa Reforma, a liberal newspaper. After World War I he moved to Warsaw, where he contributed articles and reviews to the journals Skamander and Wiadomości Literackie, and to Robotnik, a socialist daily. During the German occupation of Poland he was active in the Polish underground, and he died as a result of serious wounds received during the Warsaw Uprising.

      One of the most eccentric figures of the Polish Neoromantic literary world (he described himself as the first Polish Decadent) and scorned by the reading public during his lifetime, Irzykowski is remembered as the author of Pałuba (“The Hag”), a long novel begun in 1891 and published in 1903. The book combines a penetrating psychological analysis of its characters with a series of digressions on novel writing. Derided upon its publication, Pałuba was reprinted in 1948, following attempts by several critics to rehabilitate Irzykowski's reputation. His diaries, Notatki z życia, obserwacje i motywy (“Observations, Motifs, and Notes from Life”), were published in 1964.

      Among his critical works, Dziesiąta muza: Zagadnienia estetyczne kina (1924; “The Tenth Muse: Aesthetic Problems of the Cinema”) represents one of the earliest attempts ever to discuss, in terms of literary categories, the newly emergent medium as a form of art.

Jerzy R. Krzyzanowski
 

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