Wobec Sienkiewicza : Miłosz - Gombrowicz - Brzozowski

Abstract

What Stanisław Brzozowski, Witold Gombrowicz and Czesław Miłosz have in common is a critical attitude towards Henryk Sienkiewicz and quotes essays as well as sketches of the authors in question where they sometimes have a heated and uncompromising argument with Sienkiewicz. The very argument transforms into a fundamental discussion on the nature of the Polish literature and culture, on the role of the poet and writer in this culture. Henryk Sienkiewicz. Thus, neither Gombrowicz’s call “Let us not ignore Sienkiewicz” should surprise anyone nor the fact that Miłosz considered the issue of Sienkiewicz as obligatory for the Polish writer and intellectualist.