Herbert, Narcissus and the Fly, or the process of text creation as an exercise in reinterpretation

Mateusz  Antoniuk

Herbert, Narcissus and the Fly, or the process of text creation as an exercise in reinterpretation

Publication date: 18.11.2019

Konteksty Kultury, 2019, Special Issue (2019), pp. 71 - 90

https://doi.org/10.4467/23531991KK.19.016.11093

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Przemysław Michalski

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Herbert, Narcissus and the Fly, or the process of text creation as an exercise in reinterpretation

Abstract

This article chronicles the travails of Zbigniew Herbert during the process of writing his short prose piece depicting the image of the mythological Narcissus. An analysis of the extant versions of the manuscript serves as a telling illustration of how multivariate the reinterpretation of this myth can be. In the laboratory of his notebook, Herbert experimented with multifarious avenues of such conceptual reimagining. Those of Herbert’s texts about Narcissus which have actually been released in print are only narrowly reflective of the enormous scope of his protean creativity in the deconstruction and transformation of the canonical version of this Greek myth.

Keywords

Zbigniew Herbert, genetic criticism, archives

Remarks

Originally published in Konteksty Kultury 2018, vol. 15, no. 1 (the Polish title: “Herbert, Narcyz i mucha albo proces tekstotwórczy jako praca reinterpretacji”).

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Information: Konteksty Kultury, 2019, Special Issue (2019), pp. 71 - 90

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/23531991KK.19.016.11093

Article type: Original article

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Herbert, Narcissus and the Fly, or the process of text creation as an exercise in reinterpretation

Authors

Mateusz Antoniuk

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1608-2691

Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland

Published at: 18.11.2019

Article status: Open

Licence: CC BY-NC-ND

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The article was written under the aegis of the National Programme for the Development of the Humanities “Zbigniew Herbert Archives – Studies on the Documentation of the Creative Process,” underwritten by a relevant grant bearing the registration number 11H 13 016782; the recipient of the grant was The Faculty of Polish Studies of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków; the person in charge of the programme: Dr. Mateusz Antoniuk.

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