Dostoevsky through the Eyes of Polish Emigrant Writers after 1939

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Pages: 23-43
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54664/AGQD7177

Abstract:

The text presents the views on Dostoevsky’s work of Polish emigrant writers after 1939, who published in the emigrant publishing house “Culture”: Witołd Gombrowicz, Czesław Miłosz, Stanisław Lem, Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, Stanisław Mackiewicz, Jerzy Stempowski, Józef Czapski. Their main texts are analyzed, in which the following issues are covered: the Russian specificity of his religious and philosophical views; Polish-Russian relations and the question of Dostoevsky’s „polonophobia”, relations between Russia and the West; universal philosophical-psychological and existential views of man and society; literary polyphony.

Keywords:

Dostoevsky; Polish emigrant writers after 1939; Czesław Milosz; Witołd Gombrowicz; Stanisław Lem; Gustaw Herling-Grudziński; Stanisław Mackiewicz

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