Between Artistry and Obscenity. James Joyce’s Reception in Poland in 1924–1939

The article presents the Polish reception of James Joyce in the years 1924–1939. The assimilationof his writing helps trace the Polish perception of the aesthetics of English modernism, which wasstrongly associated with breaking moral and linguistic taboos and addressing the issues of thebody and sexuality. Critical discussions of Joyce from that period have a lot to do with the discursifyingof modernist obscenities. The interpretative framework derives from Loren Glass’s discussionof obscenity in Anglo-American modernism.