Obrazy, widma i powidoki umarłych
w twórczości Tadeusza Różewicza
Images, Spectres and After-Images of the Dead in the Work of Tadeusz Różewicz
Author(s): Bartosz KowalikSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Tadeusz Różewicz; spectre; hauntology; Jacques Derrida; afterimage
Summary/Abstract: Kowalik draws on Jacques Derrida’s hauntology to examine the status of the dead inTadeusz Różewicz’s work. In the first part he posits a transition between images of thedead (esp. in the poems written immediately after the war and dealing with traumaticwartime experiences) to their spectral return as what Władysław Strzemiński callsafterimages. Kowalik relates the presence of the dead to questions of ethics, questionsof seeing and poetic imaging. In the second part he presents a reading of the poem “nożykprofesora” [The Professor’s Knife] in the context of Derrida’s Spectres of Marx, highlightingethical aspects of Różewicz’s late work that are reminiscent of Derrida’s notion of absolutejustice.
Journal: Teksty Drugie
- Issue Year: 2021
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 272-289
- Page Count: 18
- Language: Polish
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