Marian Pankowski: Between the Carpathians and European Civilization

This essay discusses two aspects of Marian Pankowskiʼs prose: his attitude towards the Polish Romantic tradition on the one hand and towards European rationalism on the other. The conducted analysis reveals the authorʼs distance both to Polishness and to Cartesian objectivity. The artistic strategy set out by Pankowski allows him to retain his creative autonomy, which manifests itself in the authorʼs passion for unmasking post-romantic stereotypes and exposing the myths of modern society.