Obrazy, widma i powidoki umarłych w twórczości Tadeusza Różewicza
Images, Spectres and After-Images of the Dead in the Work of Tadeusz Różewicz

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.

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