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The text is a review of Sebastian Jagielski’s book Maskarady męskości. Pragnienie homospołeczne w polskim kinie fabularnym. According to the reviewer, this book is an original and pioneering use of tools of queer theory to the analysis of Polish cinema. Jagielski uses the terms “queer” and “homosocial desire” to analyze the identity of protagonists of films by, among others, Michał Waszyński, Andrzej Wajda, Krzysztof Zanussi, Władysław Pasikowski. Polish queer cinema has evolved from the modernist conventions (camp, cross-dressing) to postmodern coming out.
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The article presents an interpretation of “school” scenes from Gombrowicz’s Ferdydurke which was inspired by Pierre Bourdieu’s sociological method. The use of concepts such as ‘habitus’, ‘reproduction’, and ‘pedagogical authority’ allows one to see not only a satire on didactic ineptitude, but also a thorough and acute analysis of the functioning of the school as an institution in these scenes. From this perspective, the key function of school is not to teach, but to reproduce the structure of the social order and implement performative pedagogy which shapes this community’s members.
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The article deals with the links between strangeness, otherness and foreignness. Julia Kristeva’s book Strangers to Ourselves provides a theoretical context for an interpretation of two novels: Trans-Atlantyk by Witold Gombrowicz and A Visitor by Marian Pankowski. Both the Bulgarian-French theorist and the two Polish writers demonstrate various links of the category of strangeness (and its derivatives) and the identity discourse. The traditional notion of identity turns out to have oppressive consequences, because despite its apparent neutrality it is defined through a judgemental reference to its contradiction: non-identity as well as otherness. Kristeva, Gombrowicz and Pankowski propose alternative forms of identity which are — like the identity of a foreigner — open, heterogenous and open to difference.
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The text is devoted to the film adaptation of the novel Ferdydurke, made by Jerzy Skolimowski. The author points out two main reasons for the artistic failure of the director. Firstly, Skolimowski did not take into account the peculiarities of the poetics of the novel, especially its performative character. Nor did he take into account Gombrowicz’s metaliterary discourse, or its specific location in the structure of the novel. Secondly, Skolimowski used traditional understanding of the “Forms” category, in which it is treated as something oppressive and external. Meanwhile, Gombrowicz’s “Form” has also a performative dimension: it is the limit, but at the same time creates that which is prohibited. The author also challenges the previous attempts to indicate the analogy between Gombrowicz and Skolimowski.
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Artykuł jest poświęcony nie tyle interpretacji Kronosa Witolda Gombrowicza, ile rozważaniu trudności interpretacji tej książki. Trudności te wynikają z niejasnego statusu genologicznego i ontologicznego tego tekstu, ponieważ nie jest pewne, czy jest on dziennikiem czy autobiografią, dokumentem czy literaturą. Ascetyczna poetyka wskazywałaby, że Kronos zawiera prawdę i tylko prawdę. Zdaniem autora artykułu, książka ta nie jest zbiorem czystych faktów, ale konstruktem stworzonym na pograniczu prawdy i fikcji, egzystencji i tekstów Witolda Gombrowicza. Jeśli Kronos przynosi jakieś fakty, to w każdym wypadku podlegają one interpretacji, co wyklucza ich jednoznaczność i oczywistość.
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This article is devoted not so much to the interpretation of Witold Gombrowicz’s Kronos, but considering difficulties of interpretation this book. This difficulties stem from the unclear genological and ontological status of the text, because it is not certain whether it is diary or autobiography, document or literature. Ascetic poetics indicate that Kronos tells the truth and nothing but the truth. According to the article’s author, this book is not collection of pure facts, but a construct created on the border between truth and fiction, existence and texts of Witold Gombrowicz. If Kronos brings some facts, they are in any cases subject to interpretation, which excludes their explicitness and obviousness.
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2019
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vol. 12
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issue 1
21-39
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The article is devoted to the topic of artistic dependence of Andrzej Kijowski on Witold Gombrowicz. Intertextual analysis of Kijowski’s work confirms what literary scholars have suggested, as well as what he himself has admitted. Especially in the early stages of his writing, he was strongly influenced by Gombrowicz’s works and person. The grotesque poetics of his novels, the way he constructed his protagonists, and parodic strategies were all inspired by Gombrowicz’s novel Ferdydurke. In his late-period output, such borrowings became less numerous, while there were also attempts at polemics. After experiencing religious conversion, Kijowski became closer to God and thus moved away from Gombrowicz.
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Artykuł poświęcony jest artystycznej zależności Andrzeja Kijowskiego od Witolda Gombrowicza. Intertekstualna analiza twórczości Kijowskiego potwierdza to, co sugerowali literaturoznawcy, a także to, do czego on sam się przyznawał, mianowicie, że zwłaszcza na wczesnym etapie pisarstwa pozostawał pod silnym wpływem utworów i osoby Gombrowicza. Groteskowa poetyka powieści, konstrukcja bohatera, strategie parodystyczne – to wynik inspiracji Ferdydurke. W twórczości późniejszej tych zapożyczeń jest już mniej, pojawiają się też próby polemiki. Po religijnym nawróceniu Kijowski zbliża się do Boga, a tym samym oddala od Gombrowicza.
Wielogłos
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2021
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vol. 47
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issue 1
85-122
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The article discusses intertextual, intellectual and poetological relations between Michel de Montaigne’s Essais and Witold Gombrowicz’s autobiographical project. The author shows that the Polish writer was inspired by the French classic’s open poetics and his concept of processual and interactional subject. Gombrowicz was also interested in more specific matters present in Montaigne’s work: philosophical praise of the body, criticism of scholasticism, opposition of the private to the public.
Wielogłos
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2018
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vol. 38
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issue 4
117-124
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The article is a review of the Gender of the Henpecked Husband. Queer Masculinities in the Polish Prose of the 19th and 20th Century Tomasz Kaliściak’s. The author emphasizes the originality of the interpretations presented in this book. Kaliściak in the interpretation of Ferdydurke for the first time uses the theoretical categories developed by the so-called rectal return.
Wielogłos
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2024
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vol. 59
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issue 1
121-129
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The author considers the book by Pau Freixa Terradas to be a valuable analysis of the functioning of Witold Gombrowicz’s work and persona within Argentine literature and the Argentine literary milieu. However, he notes that a fundamental part of the book, defended as a doctoral thesis in 2008, does not stand up to the level of more recent theses on this subject that have emerged since then.
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Tekst jest omówieniem książki Pau Freixy Terradasa Witoldo wyobrażony. Recepcja twórczości Witolda Gombrowicza w Argentynie i obraz pisarza w argentyńskim imaginarium kulturowym. Autor uznaje tę publikację za wartościowy opis funkcjonowania twórczości i osoby Witolda Gombrowicza w argentyńskiej literaturze i argentyńskim środowisku literackim. Zaznacza jednak, że jej zasadnicza część, obroniona jako doktorat w roku 2008, nie wytrzymuje konkurencji z powstałymi od tego czasu rozprawami dotyczącymi tej problematyki.
Wielogłos
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2022
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vol. 53
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issue 3
89-117
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The article is a reconstruction of the project of “world literature” as presented in Milan Kundera’s essays. The writings of Witold Gombrowicz have a special place in Kundera’s conceptualisation (alongside those of Kafka, Musil or Broch), and the argumentation follows commentaries on him. The analyses presented here are concerned with three dimensions of Kundera’s project: historical-literary, theoretical-literary, and interpretative. The last of these is implemented not only by means of interpretative remarks on specific works by selected writers scattered throughout the essays, but also in Kundera’s inspirations and borrowings. The article discusses Kundera’s novel Život je jinde (Life is Elsewhere) as an example of dependence considered in terms of Harold Bloom’s “influence” on the writer.
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