Published : 2025-12-21

Heading for Disaster. The Life and Work of Stanisław Piętak

Zuzanna Guty-Szymecka



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This article aims to present Stanisław Piętak as a person and an author, serving as a starting point for further interpretations and analyses of his poetic work. The article examines his familial en-vironment (peasant origins, artistic inclinations of family members), people (his mother and fa-ther, who appear in his poetry) and events (illness) that influenced Piętak’s destiny, his education (in Tarnobrzeg, and then his unfinished studies in Kraków), his first attempts at poetry and prose, and his participation in artistic evenings, as well as his role within the Krakow and Warsaw bohemian circles. At-tention is drawn to important events in his biography during his time in Kraków, Warsaw and Łódź, which inevitably led to the writer’s tragic death. The author’s individuality is noted, as he changed his poetics in line with the development of new artistic trends.

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Stanisław Piętak, literary milieu, “inner” poetry, individuality



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Guty-Szymecka, Z. (2025). Heading for Disaster. The Life and Work of Stanisław Piętak. Facta Simonidis, 18(2), 325–341. https://doi.org/10.56583/fs.2842

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