Aron Pirmas na pograniczu Wileńszczyzny. Dzieje jednej literackiej mistyfikacji

ENAron Pirmas is the pen name of a fictional author created by the members of the "Žagary" writers' group. Based on the Russian Kuzma Prutkov, he first appeared in the 23rd issue of the "Žagary" magazine in 1933. The mystification created by the several authors writing under this pm name ( e.g Czeslaw Milosz, Teodor Bujnicki, Jozef Maslinski, Jan Huszcza) included biography as well as varied literary work, both serious and humorous, poetry and prose, original work and translations. The texts which reflect the "multiethnicity" of this fictional persona are especially worthy of notice. The combination of a Jewish first name and a Lithuanian surname, as well as the purposeful modeling of this creation on a Russian example, were all in conscious opposition to the nationalistic tendencies in the literature of the time. Pirmas parodied contemporary poetry, and mocked antisemitism and "anti-lithuanianism". He was also a literary game of an occasionally self-parodying character. Aron Pirmas' last works were published in 1940.