Left-wing Literary Criticism of the Interwar Period and a Visions of the Communisation of Literature. The casus of Baczynski, Fik and Stawar

Abstract

This text is an attempt to identify the literary worldview of left-wing criticism of the Interwar Period in Poland on the example of the works of Stanisław Baczyński, Ignacy Fik and Andrzej Stawar. Based on Marxist categories derived from the language of this formation and using the tools proposed by Pierre Bourdieu, the author attempts, following the analysed authors, to deconstruct the mechanisms operating in the field of literary production that block the possibility of revolutio­nising the field and including culturally subordinated strata in it. This is done by distinguishing and analysing six key categories that play a key role in this process. These are, in turn: 1) education and cultural competence; 2) the autonomy of the creative process and the literary work; 3) aesthetic categories; 4) the literary canon; 5) the creator and the audience; and 6) literature as a space of power.