TY - JOUR N2 - This article presents a new reading of the spoof poetic manifesto ‘Chamuły poezji’ [‘The Cads of Poetry’] written by Julian Przyboś in 1926. His use of the apocalyptic tones of early modernist poetry to lampoon a trio of acclaimed poets associated with Young Poland (especially Jan Kasprowicz) suggests a complex nature of Przyboś’s rejection and dependence on that movement. In general, the influence of Young Poland, though quite conspicuous in is juvenilia and early publications, tends to fade away. ‘Chamuły’ is a pejorative nonce word which alludes to the Biblical Ham as well as a Polish word for a cad or ill-bred bumpkin. This article adds to it another layer of meaning, based on Derrida’s interpretation of the Apocalypse, with allusions to sexual and genital imagery. And more generally, it reframes the whole Przyboś’s poetic work (not just his early poems) using Catherine Malabou’s concept of plasticity. Seen in a broader historical perspective, Przyboś’s struggles to break with Young Poland are not unlike the predicament of many eighteenth-century writers caught in the dispute between the Moderns and the Ancients, satirized in Swift’s Battle of the Books. The overall conclusion of this study is that at all times the avant-garde and the arrière-garde remain in a continuous dialogue and the innovators never lose sight of those left behind. Poetry is, after all, metamorphic and cannot be contained within within the bounds of manifestoes and artistic programmes. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/116949/PDF/2020-01-LITR-04-Misiak.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/116949 PY - 2020 IS - No 1 (358) EP - 68 DO - 10.24425/rl.2020.133839 KW - Polish literature of the early 20th century KW - Young Poland KW - Modernism KW - literary dialogue KW - Quarrel between the Moderns and the Ancients KW - spoof KW - manifesto KW - plasticity KW - Julian Przyboś (1901–1970) KW - Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) KW - Catherine Malabou (b. 1959) A1 - Misiak, Iwona PB - Polska Akademia Nauk Oddział w Krakowie Komisja Historycznoliteracka PB - Uniwersytet Jagielloński Wydział Polonistyki DA - 2020.10.05 T1 - The Cads of Young Poland according to Julian Przyboś: echoes of the early modernist apocalyptic tone SP - 48 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/116949 T2 - Ruch Literacki ER -