Karol Irzykowski (23 January 1873 â€" 2 November 1944) was a Polish
writer, literary critic, film theoretician, and chess player. Between
1933â€"1939 in the Second Polish Republic he was a member of the
prestigious Polish Academy of Literature founded by the decree of the
Council of Ministers.[1]Irzykowski was born in BÅ‚aszkowa, near
Pilzno. He came from an aristocratic land-owning family that had
fallen on hard times. From 1889 to 1893, he studied Germanistics in
Lwów (Lemberg). From 1894 to 1895, he worked occasionally as a
teacher, but his outspokenness prevented him from obtaining further
work in that line. From 1895, he lived in Lwów and worked as a
parliamentary and court stenographer.In 1903, he published one of the
most original novels of that time, Pałuba. In this highly complex and
avantgarde work, he anticipated many innovations made by modern
European experimentalists such as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, William
Faulkner or André Gide. The novel has never been translated, and in
Poland it was only truly appreciated in the second half of the 20th
century.[2] (Parts of this novel were translated into German language
after World War II).In 1908 he moved to Kraków, where he held a
position as a stenographer and correspondent in the official
correspondence office. Irzykowski played in chess tournaments at
Lemberg and Kraków, winning against Kohn, von Popiel, Chajes and
Ameisen, and drawing against Flamberg.
writer, literary critic, film theoretician, and chess player. Between
1933â€"1939 in the Second Polish Republic he was a member of the
prestigious Polish Academy of Literature founded by the decree of the
Council of Ministers.[1]Irzykowski was born in BÅ‚aszkowa, near
Pilzno. He came from an aristocratic land-owning family that had
fallen on hard times. From 1889 to 1893, he studied Germanistics in
Lwów (Lemberg). From 1894 to 1895, he worked occasionally as a
teacher, but his outspokenness prevented him from obtaining further
work in that line. From 1895, he lived in Lwów and worked as a
parliamentary and court stenographer.In 1903, he published one of the
most original novels of that time, Pałuba. In this highly complex and
avantgarde work, he anticipated many innovations made by modern
European experimentalists such as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, William
Faulkner or André Gide. The novel has never been translated, and in
Poland it was only truly appreciated in the second half of the 20th
century.[2] (Parts of this novel were translated into German language
after World War II).In 1908 he moved to Kraków, where he held a
position as a stenographer and correspondent in the official
correspondence office. Irzykowski played in chess tournaments at
Lemberg and Kraków, winning against Kohn, von Popiel, Chajes and
Ameisen, and drawing against Flamberg.
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