TY - JOUR
TI - Zagajewski’s Reflections on the Interior
AU - Shallcross, Bożena
TI - Zagajewski’s Reflections on the Interior
AB - 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.
VL - 2023
IS - Volume 20 Issue 1
PY - 2023
SN - 2083-7658
C1 - 2353-1991
SP - 10
EP - 15
DO - 10.4467/23531991KK.23.003.17906
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/konteksty-kultury/article/zagajewskis-reflections-on-the-interior
KW - interior
KW - things
KW - objects
KW - denial
KW - withdrawal
KW - perspective
KW - optic ideology