Czartak () was a regional literary group in Poland, founded after World War I by

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. Its most famous member was Zofia Kossak-Szczucka. Other members included

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and

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. Czartak's program may be described as a mystical naiveté that joined a love of nature with a disgust for modern civilization. Czartak's writers were fascinated by

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