Obecne nierzeczywiste. Apofatyczna reprezentacja jako agon na przykładzie prozy Magdaleny Tulli
Presently Unreal. Apophatic Representation as Agon as Exemplified by Magdalena Tulli’s Prose

Summary/Abstract: The paper raises the issues connected with the fight for preserving life in language and for a creative language from the perspective of agonic theory of Harold Bloom’s “anxiety of influence” and Jacques Lacan’s conception of the real. As exemplified by Magdalena Tulli’s prose the author proves that the negative (apophatic) attempt at representation in that non-mimetic model of writing breaks the deadlock of Lacanian trap in the reality concealing structure and the lack of it – “object petit a” through its disclosing. Tulli continuously attempts at presentation which cannot be completed as it exists in the texts in an incredible way and requires reiterating the act of creation. She builds the world which is being created, incomplete, insufficient and at every moment open to collapse. It is the world in which attempts at representation fail in order to open space for following representations. The world, though hardly accessible, exists and existed. Language is not only an instrument of description but also, and first and foremost, an instrument of creation set facing the reality. Tulli recalls literary reality in the act of speaking, builds narration devised for the world from language, clusters of words, and figurations of tropoi.

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