It would seem that there is no more conventional, (in Schiller’s understanding) naïve, and exhausted poetics than European confessional writing and other related forms of life writing, traditionally called écriture intime (in the French academia) or simply life writing (in the English and American tradition). (...)


Avant-garde in earnest! Stern’s biographical experiments with Apollinaire

Marta Baron-Milian


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The article is devoted to a genealogical investigation, undertaken by Anatol Stern, in his attempt to reconstruct the origin story of Guillaume Apollinaire. (...)

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“The best spoken book”. Aleksander Wat, the avant-garde, and “testimonies” of Central and Eastern Europe

Marta Rakoczy


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Analyzing Alexander Wat’s My Century as more than an account of an engaged participant in the events of Central and Eastern Europe, I would like to show its experimental potential, close to avant-garde aesthetics. (...)

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