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"From Pure Form to the Literature of Facts" is a pioneering work in a somewhat neglected area of ​​contemporary literary studies. Given that literature up to the twentieth century has been fully developed and selected, and even traditions have been created in literary studies, the spontaneous and immanent nature of critical positions on twentieth-century literature stands out even more clearly. There is no analytical criterion for it, and therefore there is no work that has shown the integral directions of development throughout its complex and heterogeneous movement in time. An influence in this regard is undoubtedly the fact that many literary movements are still alive and, with their directions of evolution and metamorphoses, often diametrically change their relationships and put a question mark over some fundamental positions in their assessment. And in literary criticism itself, similar processes can be observed. The listed positions, as well as others for which there is no need to devote space in a small review, subject the writing of a book to from a similar risk of brevity, confine it to a certain, undoubtedly short period of time. Moreover, its ambitions and depth make this period even shorter, because a small change in the treatment of literary phenomena can turn an otherwise logical structure into a compilation of concepts devoid of a single interpretative basis. What is Hutnikevich's opinion on this issue? "The creation of the book was necessitated by three things - didactic needs, insufficient information, and the backwardness of scientific Polish studies in the field of popularization of scientific achievements." So the author himself evaluates his book more as a textbook than as a scientific work in a backward field. In this respect, the author has undoubtedly achieved his goal.