Wokół Literackiej Nagrody Nobla dla Reymonta

Abstract

The text deals with controversies around the literary Nobel Prize received by the author of Chłopi (Peasants) in 1924. Using materials from scholarly archives in Cracow and Warsaw, as well as critical and memoriał literaturę, the author clarifies many facts and provides a new perspective on the controversy, which is free from any political implications. He describes the whole process from sending the application by the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1918 and Stefan Żeromski’s introduction, to tuming the author’s proposal down after the publication of Wiatr of Morza (The Wind from the Sea), claimed to be anti-German. He describes the writer’s life which ended in 1925.