MOŻLIWOŚĆ INNEJ JAWY UKRYTY WYMIAR POETYCKIEGO ŚWIATA GÉRARDA DE NERVALA
A POSSIBILITY OF A DIFFERENT REALITY: THE HIDDEN DIMENSION OF GÉRARD DE NERVAL’S POETIC WORLD

Summary/Abstract: Gérard de Nerval is a poet whose work exerted a signifi cant infl uence on the achievements of Polish modernists. One of the authors who, in creating her fi ctional world, used a similar narrative method to that applied by Nerval, was Maria Komornicka. What connects the works of the two artists is a melancholic worldview, in which an anamorphic vantage point plays an important role. Characteristic of the 19th-century vision-centeredness, the fi gure of anamorphosis makes it possible to investigate numerous philosophical contexts, as well as the problems related to the aesthetics of lack and to the “fl ickering” of the “I.” In the article, an analysis of the anamorphic images included in Nerval’s poem is complemented by a refl ection on Komornicka’s work Biesy. The juxtaposition of the texts so removed in terms of the time of their origin makes it possible to grasp the importance of anamorphic imaging in the process of shaping the 20th-century aesthetic discourse.

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