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Zagajewski’s Reflections on the Interior

Data publikacji: 14.07.2023

Konteksty Kultury, 2023, Tom 20 zeszyt 1, s. 10 - 15

https://doi.org/10.4467/23531991KK.23.003.17906

Autorzy

Bożena Shallcross
University of Chicago, USA
, Stany Zjednoczone Ameryki
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Tytuły

Zagajewski’s Reflections on the Interior

Abstrakt

The text asks the question about Adam Zagajewski’s understanding of the interior space of one’s home. Guided by his post-memory, Zagajewski describes a coping mechanism based on withdrawal into one’s place and its interiority that was construed by the Poles resettled from former Polish territories in the East as an etui, a cover protecting the traumatized selves and their memorabilia from the new, unacceptable reality. Such a protective etui created by the four walls of one’s room was during communism a site of collecting and even hoarding broken things. Obsessive collecting lead to the destruction of even a modicum of comfort and the optic perspective in the over-crowded rooms. The consequence of these two processes of interiorization allows the author to refute the notion that Zagajewski was an aesthete.

Bibliografia

Pobierz bibliografię

Nycz R., “‘Every One of Us Is a Stranger’: Patterns of Identity in Twentieth-Century Polish Literature” [in:] Framing the Polish Home: Postwar Cultural Constructions of Hearth, Nation, and Self, ed. B. Shallcross, Athens 2002.

Poe E.A., “Philosophy of Furniture” [in:] The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, New York 1903, vol. 5.

Zagajewski A., Two Cities: On Exile, History, and the Imagination, trans. L. Vallee, New York 1995.

Zagajewski A., Another Beauty, trans. C. Cavanagh, New York 2000.

Informacje

Informacje: Konteksty Kultury, 2023, Tom 20 zeszyt 1, s. 10 - 15

Typ artykułu: Oryginalny artykuł naukowy

Tytuły:

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Zagajewski’s Reflections on the Interior

Autorzy

University of Chicago, USA
Stany Zjednoczone Ameryki

Publikacja: 14.07.2023

Status artykułu: Otwarte __T_UNLOCK

Licencja: CC BY  ikona licencji

Udział procentowy autorów:

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