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'A SCHEMlNG SENIOR NIHILIST': STANISLAW RÓZEWICZ'S LATE PHASE

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Kunz T.

Ruch Literacki

2007

vol. 48

issue 3(282)

317-333

This is an attempt at describing and analyzing Stanislaw Rózewicz's late phase, which was heralded by the publication of his volume of poems 'Plaskorzezba' (Bas-Relief) in 1991. The first part of the article contains a review of the reception history of Rózewicz's poetry written since the early nineties. The review traces the emergence of a dominant style of critical appreciation of that phase of the poet's career and documents the critics' reliance on a handful of popular interpretative formulas. The second part of the article concerns itself with the ways in which Rózewicz addresses the issue of the social functioning of his poetry. It appears that in his poems the very term 'late phase' is subject to a radical and ironic scrutiny. In a similar way he treats the categories of decorum, good taste, gravity and mature wisdom that are believed to be appropriate for an Elder Poet. He pits against all those conventional expectations the experience of inner strife, lack of fulfilment, and progressive devaluation of words appropriated by the machinery of mass communication.

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

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Kunz T.

Teksty Drugie (Second Texts)

2006

issue 5(101)

36-54

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.

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'A SCHEMlNG SENIOR NIHILIST': STANISLAW RÓZEWICZ'S LATE PHASE

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