RECORD AND THE UNSPEAKABLE. SILENCE AND DESPAIR IN ZOFIA NALKOWSKA'S 'DIARIES' (Zapis i niewypowiedziane. Milczenie i rozpacz w 'Dziennikach' Zofii Nalkowskiej)

• Authors: Foltyniak Anna
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This essay proposes a reading of Zofia Nalkowska's 'Dzienniki' (Diaries), focusing on moments where the authoress signals her incapacity to write, in connection with appearance in her biography of certain difficult painful experiences; of traumatic experiences which not infrequently get elaborated in the narrative course only some time afterwards. Those moments of 'non-writing' are essential elements in the shaping of an autobiographic story and prove that silence-keeping is an indispensable part of the subject's self-narration.

Keywords

EN

CONTEMPORARY POLISH LITERATURE; NALKOWSKA ZOFIA - AUTOBIOGRAPHY; RECORDS OF TRAUMA

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Teksty Drugie (Second Texts)
• Year: 2008
• Issue: 6(114)
• Pages: 145-154
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Foltyniak Anna

• Anna Foltyniak, c/o Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydzial Polonistyki, ul. Golebia 16, 31-007 Kraków, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA05616