Od poezji Kosmosu do poezji czasu : studium o twórczości Stanisława Ciesielczuka

Abstract

The book is an attempt to show the artistic development of a little known poet from the Kwadryga (Quadriga) circle. The author presents that poetry and places it within the context of the phenomena that were characteristic of the inter-war period. She points to the tradition that poet originally belonged to, i.e. Romanticism and the Young Poland, showing, at the same time the problems of the inter-war period that were closest to his heart. The author presents the functioning of this poetry against the background of the poetical manifestos of the Kwadryga group, its becoming a part of the traditional currents of the inter-war period, and, finally, its adaptation of a number of avant-garde phenomena. Ciesielczuk’s work has been here analysd and interpreted in the context of Bolesław Leśmian’s oeuvre and of the artistic output of the Skamander group. A field of intertextual references has been found in Hamsun’s work, emphasising both writers’ fascination with nature, and discussing the fundamental differences between their respective approaches to nature. The author shows the type of consciousness implicit in Ciesielczuk’s work, and brings out his passage from a fascination with the cosmo-biological unity to an attempt to tame time, the latter being treated as category that visualises transience. A survey of Ciesielczuk’s career is provided, from his first publications in the school periodical „Pąkowie” (1923), until his last published poems that appeared in „Nowa Kwadryga” in 1937. The whole of the book is an attempt to write a monograph of a little known poet in whose work, as if in a lens, we may find a condensed reflection of the dominant tendencies of the later half of the inter-war period.