The subject of the article is a presentation of selected works of the contemporary artist against the background of the travel motif. Różycki describes himself as a peripatetic, and transfers that feature to the subjects of his texts. The theme of the journey is one of the most important themes of Różycki's works, manifesting not only in physical wandering, but also in mental travel. This sketch presents selected works in the context of a journey to many geographical spaces and as memorable treks seeking to get to know their own identity. An important element is the presentation of the context of family memories, focusing on the theme of migration from the Kresy Wschodnie to Upper Silesia (Opole). The movement in Różycki's works presents the need for contemporary man to move as a way to determine his own identity.
The author discusses the autothematic motifs in the poems Sitowie by Julian Tuwim and Przeciwne wiatry by Tomasz Różycki. The author analyses bothpoems and compares the transformations of the autothematic motifs, emphasizing the connections with literary tradition and the dialogue of the poets’ artistic attitudes. In both literary works the key problem is the relation between words and things.
The present mini essay analyses the literary output of Tomasz Różycki, a Polish poet belonging to the middle generation, who occupies now the central position among the poets of his generation. Różycki diverges from other poets because of his specific understanding of the poetic tradition and its development in modern times.
One of the important ontological assumptions of the poetic reality created in Tomasz Różycki’s poems is the multiplication of reality. The article aims to describe one of the characteristic “anti-worlds” in his work – the world of the dead. Within the analytical framework the author of the article placed the presumable lyrical ego’s ability to penetrate the borders of death and his relationships with “the other side” of existence.
Tomasz Różycki continues to use the category of space as a form of artistic expression. He creates his literary world by using the same emotion-charged spatial components. The territorial imagery of his works expresses the protagonist’s personal inner world. The topography and geography, Europe and Poland with its Eastern Borderlands, the city and the house with its material objects are all arranged to acquire a symbolic and metaphorical dimension. What emerges as a result is the non-linear, palimpsest space, which is stretched between the present and the past. The article attempts to analyze this unique spatial imagery.
The author discusses the autothematic motifs in the poems Sitowie of Julian Tuwim and Przeciwne wiatry of Tomasz Różycki. The author analyses both poems and compares the transformations of the autothematic motifs, emphasizing the connections with literary tradition and the dialogue of artistic poets’ attitudes. In both litterary works the key problem is the relation between words and things.
An expression used in the title of my paper refers to several places in contemporary and ancient Italy: the Gulf of Naples, the shores of Lampedusa and Sicily, and the mouth of the Tiber River. These places form the background of the tragedy of African and Middle East refugees shown in poems by Tomasz Różycki: Lawinia (Lavinia) from the collection Litery (Letter by Letter, 2016) and Strefa komfortu (Comfort Zone) from the newest poetry book Kapitan X (Captain X, 2020). My detailed analysis of the two texts is an attempt to describe their formal and semantic complexity, especially their unique tone that mixes sharp irony with tender compassion.
“From image to voice” is a metaphor of the artistic biography of Mira Rosenthal, the translator of two poetic books by Tomasz Różycki: The Forgotten Keys (2007) and Colonies (2013). Through an analysis of translations and self-commentaries by Rosenthal, the author of the article also indicates the possibility of completing the traditional conception of “implied author’s/ translator’s image” with the concept of “voice”, taking into account non-semantic aspects of a translated text, especially those connected with its sonic structure (the inspiration for such an approach may be found in H. U. Gumbrecht’s works). “Voice” is understood as something more than just a textual representation, an image or a semantic figure of the extratextual creator – it is a material, somatic presence of the translator in the poem.
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„Od obrazu do głosu” to metafora twórczej biografii Miry Rosenthal, tłumaczki dwóch tomów poezji Tomasza Różyckiego: The Forgotten Keys (2007) oraz Colonies (2013). Analizując przekłady i autokomentarze Rosenthal, autorka artykułu wskazuje również na możliwość dopełnienia tradycyjnej koncepcji wewnątrztekstowego „obrazu autora/tłumacza” pojęciem „głosu”, uwzględniającym pozasemantyczne aspekty dzieła tłumaczonego, związane zwłaszcza z organizacją brzmieniową (inspiracji dla takiego ujęcia dostarczają pisma Hansa Urlicha Gumbrechta). „Głos” jest rozumiany jako coś więcej niż tekstowa reprezentacja, wyobrażenie, figura semantyczna pozatekstowego twórcy – jest materialną, cielesną obecnością tłumacza w przekładanym dziele poetyckim.
This paper focuses on the former Austrian crown land of Galicia and Lodomeria and its return in literary texts of a new generation that can recall it only from collective and family memory. Spaces like Galicia are situated in shifting political borders and often marked by (fragmented) memories connected to traumas caused by migration, forced resettlements, expulsions, or violence. The rediscovery of these spaces, often from nostalgia for a lost home and bygone times, is the starting point of many narratives of the postmemory generations in contemporary literature. Authors use new rhetorical strategies when dealing with adversarial nationalistic and traumatic topics: ironic nostalgia, gonzo, and magical realism. These narratives do not verify “truths,” instead they play with different myths, possibilities, and “alternative futures.” The analysis includes Tomasz Różycki’s Dwanaście stacji (2004), Sabrina Janesch’s Katzenberge (2010), and Ziemowit Szczerek’s Przyjdzie Mordor i nas zje (2013).
The article is a proposal for opening verse studies to the problem of presence, on the basis of Hans Urlich Gumrecht’s project of a nonhermeneutic humanities. The author presents the limitations of a semantically oriented versology, simultaneously pointing to the possibility of a continuation of formal-structural tradition of studies on verse, following non-semantic threads in the works of Polish theorists: Janusz Sławiński, Lucylla Pszczołowska i Teresa Dobrzyńska. Tomasz Różycki’s poem Panny nieroztropne [Foolish virgins] become an exemplum for the ensuing considerations, while two intuitions of contemporary poets inspire theoretical considerations. One is Eugenio Montale’s perverse thesis on the hopeless semanticity of poetry and Adam Zagajewski’s Nietzschean claim that versologists take care of fire rather than ashes, i.e., investigate living, aesthetically influential verse forms.
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Artykuł jest propozycją otwarcia badań wersologicznych na problematykę obecności w oparciu o projekt niehermeneutycznej humanistyki Hansa Urlicha Gumbrechta. Autorka przedstawia ograniczenia wersologii zorientowanej semantycznie, zarazem jednak wskazuje możliwość kontynuacji formalno-strukturalnej tradycji badań nad wierszem, śledząc niesemantyczne wątki w pracach polskich teoretyków: Janusza Sławińskiego, Lucylli Pszczołowskiej i Teresy Dobrzyńskiej. Funkcję exemplum pełni wiersz Tomasza Różyckiego Panny nieroztropne, rozważaniom teoretycznym patronują zaś dwie przenikliwe intuicje współczesnych poetów: przewrotna teza Eugenio Montalego o beznadziejnej semantyczności poezji oraz nietzscheański z ducha postulat Adama Zagajewskiego, by wersolodzy nie zajmowali się popiołem, lecz ogniem, tj. badali żywe, estetycznie oddziałujące formy wierszowe.
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