Studia Filologiczne UJK

Summary

Michał Siedlecki reviews the book by Tomasz Bocheński entitled “Improvisation in Polish literature of the 20th century”. This work is an important study on the most outstanding Polish authors of the past century (Wiesław Myśliwski, Bruno Schulz, Witold Gombrowicz, Julian Tuwim and Witkacy), considered by the scholar from the perspective of innovative literary methods. Moreover, it remains a brave, although not fully developed dissertation – in terms of research and language. Despite some shortcomings, it is nevertheless an intimate literary escapade, determined by the category of improvisation taken directly from musicology, used in this way, it seems, for the first time in Polish literary studies. This research expedition by Bocheński allows the works analyzed here to speak.