Czartak () was a regional literary group in

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...

, founded after

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by Emil Zegadłowicz. Its most famous member was

Zofia Kossak-Szczucka Zofia Kossak-Szczucka ( (also Kossak-Szatkowska); 10 August 1889 – 9 April 1968) was a Polish writer and World War II resistance fighter. She co-founded two wartime Polish organizations: Front for the Rebirth of Poland and Żegota, set up ...

. Other members included Edward Kozikowski, Jan Nepomucen Miller and Janina Brzostowska. Czartak's program may be described as a mystical naiveté that joined a love of

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with a disgust for modern

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. Czartak's writers were fascinated by expressionism.

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