%0 Journal Article
%T “Everything is Repeated on a Single Blade of Knife.” About the Experience of Loss in Tadeusz Nowak’s Przebudzenia [Awakenings]
%A Siwor, Dorota
%J Konteksty Kultury
%V 2016
%R 10.4467/23531991KK.16.019.6758
%N Volume 13, Issue 4
%P 346-359
%K Tadeusz Nowak, Przebudzenia, loss, metaphor of a circle, longing
%@ 2083-7658
%D 2017
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/konteksty-kultury/article/wszystko-jest-powtorzone-na-jednym-ostrzu-noza-o-doswiadczeniu-utraty-w-przebudzeniach-tadeusza-nowaka
%X The article is devoted to the prose debut of Tadeusz Nowak; however, the volume Przebudzenia [Awakenings] is interpreted in the context of his later writings. The suggestions concerning the interpretation of the title word point at some notions crucial for understanding Nowak’s prose writing: the feeling of yearning for what has been lost and suffering incurred by the awareness of lack. The shape of a circle plays a significant role in these deliberations, since repetition seems to be the antidote for fading away and dying. Writing – here also understood as a form of repetition – becomes a necessary and continually undertaken attempt to heal the wound caused by the experience of loss.