Brakująca część historii (literatury). O książce Marty Baron-Milian Wat plus VAT

• Authors: Jakub Skurtys
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

The missing part of (literary) historyThe article is a review of Marta Baron-Milian’s Wat plus VAT, the first monograph about connections between economy and literature in Aleksander Wat’s work. The author tries to show Baron’s book as a part of wider phenomenon, which can be observed after the great crisis in 2008, as a result of returning of different humanistic approaches to the problems of capitalist economy. By analyzing “economic consciousnessˮ and literary strategies of Aleksander Wat (in his poetry, biography, short stories and essays), Baron reveals the theological, symbolic and linguistic basis of modern economy. It allows her to describe a specific literary “experience of economy” and penetrating analyze of main themes of Wat’s work. One of the aims of the review is to rethink Baron’s proposition as a part of the new, thematically orientated history of polish modern literature. The other is to check, if Wat’s and Baron’s strictly modern and humanistic view of the economic systems can be still subversive and helpful against postmodern, mathematically reinforced capitalistic rhetoric.

Keywords

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Baron-Milian Marta, Wat Aleksander, literatura i ekonomia, literatura XX wieku

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Wielogłos
• Year: 2015
• Issue: 4(26)

Dates

published

2015

online

2016-09-02

Contributors

author

Jakub Skurtys