O roli czasopisma „Fantastyka” / „Nowa Fantastyka” w przyswajaniu pojęcia „fantasy” przez polską kulturę literacką

The article is an attempt to reconstruct the influence of texts that appeared in the magazine “Fantastyka” (later “Nowa Fantastyka”) in the 1980s and 1990s on the introduction of the concept of “fantasy” to Polish literary culture. The analysis included not only theoretical and literary publications (sometimes translations from other languages), but also popular science and essay writings, editorials and readers’ letters. All of them seem to prove that the “birth” of “fantasy” in Poland was a spontaneous and multidimensional process—an example of authentic literary life, engaging not only critics and authors, but also the literary audience in the meta-literary discourse.