Critica varia

Abstract

The book collects texts of different types: cross-sectional sketches, critical portraits, interviews a as well as laudations of great poets and writers. It is a meeting with a historio-literary varietas, and faces privatized (personal) past of a reading. The 20th century literature, seen in fragments, shreds or reflections, is, thus, becoming a map of possible peregrinations and meetings. The author does not conceal that the nature of reading is looking for important meanings regardless of time. That is why, combining authors of different generations, schools and poetics, the author tries to see them in a joint experience of reality and literature. It is also a personal book as it refers to outstanding figures of the Polish literary culture the author met or entered into a cognitive dialogue with.