Ślady egzystencji. Dzienniki - sploty życia i twórczości w literaturze Europy Środkowej (1890-1920)

The book delves into the interconnected themes in the lives and works of Karol Irzykowski (1873–1944), Ladislav Klíma (1878–1928), and Géza Csáth (1883–1919), highlighting their representative significance for modernism and the broader experience of modernity in Central European literature and culture. It adopts a transnational and comparative lens to examine this connection. The diaries of these authors serve as a foundational element, demonstrating how personal records can evolve into the innovative prose characteristic of each writer. These diaries also fuel the autobiographical and critical-literary reflections found in Irzykowski’s cultural theory, Klíma’s intentionally anti-system philosophy, and Csáth’s probing of the boundaries of literature and the human psyche.