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- Title
The World Divided.
- Authors
Zajączkowski, Ryszard
- Abstract
In the interwar period, Józef Wittlin was one of the best-known Polish writers. In 1941, as a consequence of World War II, he settled permanently in New York. The image of America that emerges from his published essays and entries in his unpublished notebooks is twofold. The writer praises his adopted land as friendly to immigrants, democratic, and, through the mediation of its writers, associated with the Greek-Roman tradition. However, in the texts not intended for publication he depicts this country from the vantage point of an attentive observer of his immediate environment. This image shows a world that is materialized, devoid of ideals and religiously indifferent. Thus expressing his sincere opinion of America, Wittlin provokes discussion of its myth.
- Subjects
WITTLIN, Jozef; POLISH authors; POLISH immigrants' writings; UNITED States in literature; DEMOCRACY in literature; MATERIALISM in literature
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Slawistik, 2014, Vol 59, Issue 2, p168
- ISSN
0044-3506
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/slaw-2014-0017