The returns of Henryk Bereza

Abstract

The turn of the second and third decades of the 21st century witnessed an increasing interest in Henryk Bereza and his critical-literary output, also among critics and literary scholars of the younger generation. Excerpts from archival articles by Bereza appeared in online literary press, and he was the subject of two special issues of literary journals, featuring in-depth sketches, memoirs and literary surveys. In this article, I look at the ways in which the critic’s thought has been presented so far and I seek potential points of connection between the critical categories he created and the contemporary situation in the literary field, with particular reference to two of them: the artistic revolution in prose and the peasant current.