Literatura jako model kultury

The author of the sketch convinces that literature may be treated as a model of a culture, as both these areas of human activity are subject to the same rules of dynamism and alternation, i.e. replacing worn-out forms by innovative ones. In the history of the Polish culture of the 20th century three types of culture are distinguished: politicized, autotelic, consumerist. The predominance of one of the types listed was connected in Poland with the experiences of the nation, where, after brief moments of freedom, there were long years of bondage or political oppression. The situation changed radically only after 1989, when Poland regained full independence. But it was because of the imitative nature of the cultural changes that in the democratic society of the Polish Third Republic we currently have a surfeit of aesthetical offers with simultaneous vagueness of norms, hierarchy and value, which constitutes a relative characteristic of West European postmodernism