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A text devoted to Cormac McCarthy's two most recent novels, The Passenger (Pasażer) and Stella Maris, which are analysed in the context of his earlier works. The author draws attention to the evolution of the writing idiom developed by the American novelist. He sees the reasons for this change in McCarthy's interest in scientific issues, which he explored in the last years of his life, following the activities of the Santa Fe Institute as a resident and addressing this subject in his essayistic texts. In The Passenger and Stella Maris, his scientific interests were transferred to prose fiction, which influenced the stylistics and narrative conventions of both novels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article discusses the letters from the Kazimierz Andrzej Jaworski's archive preserved in the collection of the Józef Czechowicz Museum in Lublin. It describes the activity of the editor-in--chief of the journal Kamena in the light of of his correspondence with Polish and European writers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores various text coding strategies in the work of Polish Futurists. Drawing on the concept of Jerome J. McGann's bibliographic code, this analysis of the fonts, layout and typographic devices used in their texts reveals a development culminating in literary breakthrough at the beginning of the interwar period. It shows, moreover, that the Futurist revolutionists depended heavily on the material and manufacturing base which they wanted to overthrow and replace. That dependence manifests itself in the incongruous adoption of various traditional fonts, typographic and graphic designs, which remains the most striking characteristic of a Futuristic text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A sketch devoted to the series Lady Astronaut of Mars by Mary Robinette Kowal. The novels that make up the series are analyzed from the perspective of the dominant trends in modern fantasy, mainly postapo and climate fiction. The broader context of the analysis is the belief in a technological and scientific progress, rooted in the philosophical discourse of modernity, which is a counterweight to the catastrophic narrative. The utopian accents in Kowal’s novels constitute one of the ways to break the deadlock related to the “anthropocene stagnation” and its rhetoric (Ewa Bińczyk), and, at the same time, open up the field for a new discussion on climate change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The sketch comedy Szopki, a show staged irregularly (1927-1931) by a trio of poets who clustered round the avant-garde magazine Reflektor was a fascinating artistic project combining literary aspiration and popular culture. This article tries to position Szopki in the context of the burgeoning entertainment industry and the specific social, political and economic conditions of Lublin, a provincial centre that joined an ambitious modernization project. However, to continue the Great Lublin Project the town needed to borrow more money it could not possibly pay back. No wonder the official narrative of modernization came under an unending barrage of ridicule and derision while local satire revelled in words like crisis, credit, bankruptcy, seizure and sale. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the concept of collaborative writing or multi-author writing using the example of the novel Black Paris by Jolanta Fuchsówna, a forgotten columnist of the "Ilustrowany Kurier Codzienny", and the avant-garde poet and writer Jan Brzękowski. This interwar novel from 1932 is yet to be published in book form. The specificity of the preserved materials and the manuscript make the concept of collaborative writing the operative one for studying the text and describing these writers' collaboration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Postwar film writings of Tadeusz Peiper are the protest against “the policics of the voice” (M. Dolar) of the Polish social realist and propaganda films. Escaping from be-ing involved in communist ideology, the author creates a cinematic theory concentrated on nonverbal elements. An important role is played by categories extremely far from the constructivist discourse of art (nostalgia, community, non-human). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An analysis of material from the archive of the Lublinbased “Reflektor”. The author discusses the collections kept there from the viewpoint of building around them assorted narrations, which could complete traditional literary history interpretations. Analysed as a cultural statement the documents reveal numerous up to now unknown aspects of the activity of the Reflektor group situated beyond the sphere of art publications. More, they show the way in which the network of social life relations came into being and the manner in which the Lublin artists negotiated their position within the local milieu. Furthermore, the material character of the archive offers insight into the specificity of everyday activity connected with publishing an avant-garde periodical in the mid-1920s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Postwar film writings of Tadeusz Peiper are the protest against "the policics of the voice" (M. Dolar) of the Polish social realist and propaganda films. Escaping from be-ing involved in communist ideology, the author creates a cinematic theory concentrated on nonverbal elements. An important role is played by categories extremely far from the constructivist discourse of art (nostalgia, community, non-human). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a previously unknown poem by Jalu Kurek, found in the Józef Czechowicz Museum of Literature in Lublin. The youthful poem titled Nostalgia shows Kurek's breaking away from the spell of futurism and edging towards an avant-garde poetics with a great deal of juxtaposition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Czarny Paryż [The Back Paris] is a crime novel written by Jolanta Fuchsówna, journalist and writer, and Jan Brzękowski, leading poet of the Cracow Avant-garde who lived in Paris, and serialized in the Cracow daily Ilustrowany Kurier Codzienny in 1932, but not published as a book. In this article two typescripts of the novel are analyzed and compared with the printed text, taking note of all the corrections and amendments introduced by the authors. An integral supplement to this textual study is an extract from Chapter XIII 'A Party in the Studio of the Japanese Man' reproduced in two versions, 1) with footnotes and modernized spelling, and 2) the original text from the typescript with all annotations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The review analyses the edition of Aleksander Wat's Notatniki (Notes) edited by Adam Dziadek and Jan Zieliński. The book was prepared on the basis of research methods developed on the ground of genetic criticism, which displays the working process character of the author's record. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]