Abstract:
In the review main interpretation theses of Andrzej Niewiadomski’s monograph devoted
to the writing of the outstanding emigration author from ‘the generation 1910’ Zygmunt
Haupt have been presented. These are: the aesthetics of mannerism, critical diagnosis of
modernity crowned with an attempt to build a constructive ethical and literary project and
a thorough analysis of the key motives of his prose (including aviarium, art of mannerism,
theatrum mundi, road-home, a landowner’s manor house, horses, word ‘strange’, ‘quaternary’
structures).The author presents writer’s workshop secrets and places him among the
greatest representatives of Polish as well as European modernism.
