Przestrzeń „Toposu”. Kilka słów na początek

Abstract

This article is an introduction to a volume devoted to the bimonthly literary journal “Topos”, which has been published in Sopot since 1993. Its editor-in-chief is poet and literary event organiser Krzysztof Kuczkowski. During the quarter of a century in which it has been published, “Topos” has become an important periodical, promoting literature opposing the post-modernism dominating Polish culture at the turn of the 21st century. At the same time, the periodical has become the informal voice of a constellation of seven poets gathered around it: Krzysztof Kuczkowski, Wojciech Kass, Wojciech Kudyba, Przemysław Dakowicz, Wojciech Gawłowski, Adrian Gleń and Jarosław Jakubowski. The introduction also includes information about the celebration of the journal's jubilee (Sierakowski Manor in Sopot, 28-29 September 2018), as well as the academic conference “Topos”: literary journal, ideas, artistic milieu, which was organised on 15-16 November 2018 by the “East – West” Department of Philological Research at the University of Białystok and the Academic Department of the Łukasz Górnicki Książnica Podlaska. “Topos”, according to the author of the introduction, is an important journal promoting poetry and literature oriented towards metaphysical search.