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THE BORDERS OF TRANSITIVITY

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Neuger L.
Teksty Drugie (Second Texts)
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2005
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issue 3(93)
9-16
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The notion of transitivity comes from Emmanuel Lévinas' lectures collected and edited as 'Le temps et l´autre', where it is defined as ecstatic absorption of the world as a food, as part of one's material care about himself/herself. This essay focuses on two consecutive records, dated 1958, in Gombrowicz's 'Dziennik' (The Journal), where the author's transitivity seemingly stops in the face of fate/death. In the first record, a static and passive submission to the rush of time proves correspondent with it being (im)possible to read of one's own history (or face) from blurred traces. In the second, transitivity is halted when it comes to facing what is radically different and scaring (lofty); where the border between the inner and the outer, the hidden and the open, the expressible and the inexpressible gets violated.
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RETURN OF THE BODIES (AS COMPELLING OR ALLURING PRESENCES IN WlADYSlAW BRONIEWSKI'S VERSE)

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Neuger L.
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2008
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vol. 49
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issue 6
631-637
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Death is almost omnipresent in the poetry of Wladyslaw Broniewski. Taking into account this dominant theme as well as the idea of body-mind dualism this essay develops two complementary models of Broniewski's poetics of the dead body. According to the first model the body must be destroyed for the 'fiery thought' inside to flee and seek another incarnation. Although hindered by the sheer obstruction of matter, the process is repeated again and again with more bodies being destroyed. This cyclic movement will continue until the completion of time, when history will eventually give way to timeless bliss. Meanwhile, the dead bodies oppress the poet with their compelling presence and make him produce poetry which relays their message in a coherent, generally accessible form. At the same time, however, Broniewski follows another model of poetry, in which the haunting bodily presences tempt him with promises of distraction and dissolution (in the world at large, in the country, or some kind of intoxication). This captivating allure defies coherent poetic expression and results in what has been termed 'clumsy verse', which dominates in Broniewski's post-war output.
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