Intimacy impossible, intimacy 'denied'. Two contemporary novels

• Authors: Unilowski K.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The sketch concerns two novels dated 1998. Andrzej Falkiewicz's novel 'Ledwie mrok' proves to be interesting in terms of its aesthetics and problems, whilst being a somewhat late-date recapitulation of experiences of modern prose. The author outlines a transgressive project of expressing those aspects of corporeality which are hardly graspable in the language, whilst at the same time gathering arguments testifying to a utopian nature of any such project. In turn, Adam Ubertowski, a representative of a much younger generation of authors, uses in his 'Szkice do obrazu batalistycznego', in a pastiche mode, certain cultural and literary matrices (well-established models of manliness, initiation pattern, etc.) along with elements of a modern literary code, to place a 'simulac' - i.e. intimacy seen in terms of a copy of one's self, relating to repetition; an intimacy that is multiplied and reproduced as a narrative phantasm - precisely where modernism situated the individual's source experience.

Keywords

EN

CONTEMPORARY POLISH LITERATURE; FALKIEWICZ ANDRZEJ; TRANSGRESSION; UBERTOWSKI ADAM

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Teksty Drugie (Second Texts)
• Year: 2007
• Issue: 1/2(103/4)
• Pages: 235-248
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Unilowski K.

• K. Unilowski, Uniwersytet Slaski w Katowicach, Instytut Nauk o Literaturze Polskiej, pl. Sejmu Slaskiego 1, 40-032 Katowice, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07PLAAAA02615386