The Ruins of the Avant-Garde: The Post-War Manuscripts of Tadeusz Peiper
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RIS BIB ENDNOTEKonteksty Kultury, 2024, Volume 21 issue 3, pp. 325-335
https://doi.org/10.4467/23531991KK.24.029.20864Authors
The Ruins of the Avant-Garde: The Post-War Manuscripts of Tadeusz Peiper
In the mid-1950s, at the peak of psychosis, Tadeusz Peiper (the key figure in the history of Polish avant-garde) begins a gigantic manuscript-writing work, which takes the form of an all-encompassing logoreia called “Księga pamiętnikarza” [Book of Memoirist] by the author. In its present form, Book… includes dozens of folders of manuscripts and typescripts, in addition to which folders contain excerpts and newspaper clippings. By examining this – still unpublished, available only in the archive – manuscript, author of essay tries to tell the story of a creative subject at the same moment excluded from the social environment (understood as institutions, literary life, social relations) and producing a kind of phantomatic, delusional “environment” (to some extent detached from intersubjective reality).
Information: Konteksty Kultury, 2024, Volume 21 issue 3, pp. 325-335
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Jagiellonian University in Kraków
Poland
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JAROSŁAW FAZAN – professor at Department of Polish Studies, historian of twentieth-century polish literature, university teacher, editor of Tadeusz Peiper’s Writings (compiled two volumes – together with K. Fazan Among People on Stages and on Screen and Gabriela Zapolska as an Actress). He works in the Department of Borderline Literary Culture at the Faculty of Polish Studies at Jagiellonian University. Author of the books But I Not God. Contemplation and Theater in the Work of Miron Bialoszewski (1999) and From Metaphor to Delusion. Tadeusz Peiper’s Attempt at Pathography (2010); co-editor of the volumes Żagary. Cultural Environment of the Literary Group (2009), On the Borderlands of Literature (2012), Formation 1910: Parallel Biographies (2013); compiled together with T. Bujnicki and K. Zajas the volume Żagary. An Anthology of Poetry (2019) in the series of the National Library, published by Ossolineum Publishing House (Wrocław). Together with Krzysztof Zajas, he edits the series Polish Studies –Transdisciplinary Perspectives in the Peter Lang publishing house. He directed the Avant-garde Research Center, established at the Faculty of Polish Studies at the Jagiellonian University (2017–2022).
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