People and the city in the prose of the interwar period from the perspective of contemporary reading (on examples of novels by Tadeusz Rittner, Mieczysław Smolarski and Bruno Jasieński)

Abstract

The article is an attempt to answer the question if are the pictures of the cities presented in the novels: “Palę Paryż” by Bruno Jasieński, “Miasto Światłości” by Mieczysław Smolarski and “Między nocą a brzaskiem” and “Duchy w mieście” by Tadeusz Rittner current. Selected issues from the sociology of the city have been used in this thesis. Relevant examples from the novels along with specific quotes are associated to particular aspects of the urbanization and determinants of the “urban lifestyle”. Attention is directed to the fragments which can be referred to present day to confront them with the latest phenomena and to show if are these novels in some way current or not.