On a film by Andrzej Sapija

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

Abstracts

EN

This article presents the most important stages and areas of Tadeusz Kantor's output, as shown in 'Powrót Odysa II'. Tadeusza Kantora notatki z prób' (The Return of Odysseus, 2. Tadeusz Kantor's rehearsal notes), a documentary directed by Andrzej Sapija. The motif of a 'return of Odysseus', the principal category in Kantor's art, was employed as the film's structural skeleton. Once a real event, the production staged in 1944, when reduced to a few elements, often recalled as a reference and discussed at a length, had effectively been deformed. The article, in turn, becomes a commentary of a sort, exceeding the limits of the filmmaker's script. The trade mainly concerns the 'Powrót Odysa' production: for the author, the facts established with respect to the premiere version have become the basis for a critical analysis of Kantor's later utterances on the performance, including on a sequence repeated in his 'Nigdy tu juz nie powróce' (I shall never return here). The article follows the film's narrative, attempting at communicating the abundance of motifs touched upon by Sapija and taking into account the filmmaker's interpretation and precise composition of the material, as ensuing from the editing work and documents selected.

Keywords

EN

KANTOR TADEUSZ; ODYSSEUS; SAPIJA ANDRZEJ

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Teksty Drugie (Second Texts)
• Year: 2006
• Issue: 4(100)
• Pages: 177-190
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Tokarska K.

• K. Tokarska, no address given, contact the journal editor

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

06PLAAAA01713702