Retoryczność kolekcji w świetle powieści Johna Fowlesa Kolekcjoner (1963)
The rhetoric of the collection in the light of John Fowles' novel The Collector (1963)

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the issue of the rhetorical nature of the collection in the light of the debut novel by the English writer and essayist John Fowles – The Collector (1963). The introduction of the article justifies the way of understanding the concept of rhetoric as a specific cultural experience based on the post-structuralist theory of literature by Adam Regiewicz, and on the basis of the idea of literary writing as a testimony to a specific form of cataloguing espoused by Umberto Eco. The article explores the rhetoricality of the collection in Fowles' work in the context of the modern experience of beauty, which is analyzed through the lens of selected writings of Walter Benjamin, where rhetoricality is treated as a cultural game with a convention.

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