'Me: a room to display things rewritten'. Miron Bialoszewski, or, literature as a form of existence

• Authors: Kunz T.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This article deals with attempted reconstruction of a performative variety of literary subjectivity which emerges from the interpretation of a few selected poems by Miron Bialoszewski. Particular attention is paid to the ingenuous concept of 're-writing', which for the author of the essay is a sort of interpretative key to understanding the specificity of a relationship between the world, language, and subject in Bialoszewski's output. The author argues that the act of writing (or rather, re-writing) becomes a privileged method of subjective existence, spanning over both the empirical and textual spheres. Bialoszewski's writing strategy is described as a 'fagic' one, with a reference to the poet's extremely unique capability of transforming any forms of experience (particularly, linguistic experience) into his own individual idiom. This peculiar skill contains Bialoszewski's basic self-creative existential formula consisting in a conscious creation of the 'self' through it being rewritten in a new linguistic order. This attitude is conditioned by the radically anti-essentialist input concept of existence, the original ontological weakness of the 'self', which, in an integrated form filled with a sense, may seemingly manifest itself in a text, owing to the act of writing.

Keywords

EN

BIALOSZEWSKI MIRON; POLISH POETRY; REWRITING

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Teksty Drugie (Second Texts)
• Year: 2006
• Issue: 5(101)
• Pages: 36-54
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kunz T.

• T. Kunz, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydzial Polonistyki, Katedra Antropologii Literatury i Badan Kulturowych, ul. Grodzka 64, 31-044 Kraków, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

06PLAAAA01713707