%0 Journal Article %T Marcin Świetlicki, czyli literatura jako forma nieistnienia %A Kunz, Tomasz %J Konteksty Kultury %V 2015 %R 10.4467/23531991KK.15.006.3702 %N Volume 12, Issue 1 %P 82-93 %K Marcin Świetlicki, subjectivity, irony, authenticity, negativity %@ 2083-7658 %D 2015 %U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/konteksty-kultury/article/marcin-swietlicki-czyli-literatura-jako-forma-nieistnienia %X In my article, I attempt to analyze the philosophical and artistic premises of the autobiographical project realized in the poetry of Marcin Świetlicki. I try to show that this project leads to negation of the need of existence, both in the order of a work and in the order of existence, of a distinct form of subjective identity, typical for the modern culture of presence. The subject of my interest is a peculiar kind of lyrical autobiographical narrative which I analyze referencing, among others, the concept of authenticity understood in the context of de Man’s approach to irony. In the final part of the article, I suggest a possible direction of considerations concerning the eponymous phenomenon of nonexistence as a negative, “phantom” form of presence that escapes presentation