@article{018e9e45-cbce-70a9-8ec0-7907f06d4a71,
author = {Bożena Shallcross},
title = {Zagajewski’s Reflections on the Interior},
journal = {Konteksty Kultury},
volume = {2023},
number = {Volume 20 Issue 1},
year = {2023},
issn = {2083-7658},
pages = {10-15},keywords = {interior; things; objects; denial; withdrawal; perspective; optic ideology},
abstract = {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.},
doi = {10.4467/23531991KK.23.003.17906},
url = {https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/konteksty-kultury/article/zagajewskis-reflections-on-the-interior}
}