%0 Journal Article
%T “One Was Divided into Two.” The Woman As the “Other” in Marcin Świetlicki’s Jeden (One)
%A Ryś, Paweł Wiktor
%J Konteksty Kultury
%V 2017
%R 10.4467/23531991KK.17.006.7271
%N Volume 14 Issue 1
%P 84-96
%K Świetlicki, poetry, Jeden, other, woman
%@ 2083-7658
%D 2017
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/konteksty-kultury/article/jeden-przez-dwa-zostalo-podzielone-kobieta-jako-inny-w-jeden-marcina-swietlickiego
%X The article concerns the image of the woman in Marcin Świetlicki’s 2013 volume of poetry entitled Jeden (One), composed of “love stories.” Femininity, for the speaker of the poems being a sort of “otherness” (understood here partly after Paul Ricoeur), presents itself as – on the one hand – a “mirror” for the “I”, and – on the other hand – its indispensable ingredient. This is because Świetlicki’s writing expresses the conviction that identity is as much a “positive” identification as (and maybe even chiefly) an identification done with regard to or through someone or something else. As a result of the constantly recurring necessity and need to distinguishing oneself, the woman seems to be both the condition and determinant of the “I” in Świetlicki’s Jeden.