"Walczymy w gruncie rzeczy o to samo…?" : wokół listów Stanisława Piaseckiego i Włodzimierza Pietrzaka do Kazimierza Wyki

Maciej Urbanowski has published here hitherto unknown letters to Kazimierz Wyka by Stanisław Piasecki and Włodzimierz Pietrzak, written in 1935-1938. Their correspondence adds a new insight into what we know of the life of Kazimierz Wyka, one of the most outstanding 20thcentury Polish critics and literary scholars. The letters take us right behind the scenes of the failed attempts to recruit Wyka's pen for "Prosto z mostu", the leading periodical of the literary right in interwar Poland. The generational literary and political sensitivities which Wyka and the writers gathered round Piasecki’s weekly had in common were not enough, as Urbanowski argues, to overcome his more fundamental reservations. Wyka thought highly of some of the contributors of Prosto z mostu", but was put off by the paper’s nationalist ideological line. Nonetheless, Piasecki's and Pietrzak's letters give us a sense of the complex pattern of inner differences and divisions that characterized the new literary generation of the 1930s.