%0 Journal Article
%T Zygmunt Haupt – An European Exile
%A Panas, Paweł
%J Konteksty Kultury
%V 2019
%R 10.4467/23531991KK.19.022.11248
%N Volume 16 Issue 2
%P 221-231
%K Zygmunt Haupt, exile, Europe, United States, identity
%@ 2083-7658
%D 2019
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/konteksty-kultury/article/zygmunt-haupt-europejski-wygnaniec
%X The article presents an analysis of one of Zygmunt Haupt’s text – unpublished during the author’s lifetime – which grapples with the issue of identity of a Polish writer who settled in the United States. The artist’s exile self-awareness is determined by the spatiotemporal conceptual oppositions typical for the émigré condition: “here” and “there,” “now” and “then.” An additional, original element of Hauptian discourse is the metaphor of the “praił” [primordial clay] that he uses to describe the foundation of the long-established self-awareness that is confronted with the ubiquitous otherness. The analysis also encompasses the writer’s literary output and unpublished archival materials.