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A watchmaker-dynamitard: From the Gałąź zachodnia [The Western Branch] archive
A watchmaker-dynamitard: From the Gałąź zachodnia [The Western Branch] archive
Author(s): Jan ZielińskiContributor(s): Małgorzata Olsza (Translator)
Subject(s): Comparative Study of Literature, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: Rainer Maria Rilke; Mediterranean culture; Polish borderlands and borderlands culture; cinematic techniques; Andrzej Bobkowski; anarchism in literature;
Summary/Abstract: An unpublished essay about Haupt found in the critic’s archive: it is a chapter from a book titled Gałąź Zachodnia [The Western Branch] on Polish émigré literature, ready to print in 1990, but never published. The essay discusses the distinct features of Zygmunt Haupt’s prose, such as its artistic and musical qualities, complex narrative structure, (false) auto-biographical tropes, hidden erudition, historical landscape, cinematic techniques, borderland and Mediterranean themes, and references to adventure novels. Haupt’s prose is also com-pared with the works of Andrzej Bobkowski, which allows the critic to discuss the contradiction, also emphasized in the title of the essay, between Haupt’s anarchist tendencies and his quest for perfection and precision in a work of art.
Journal: Forum Poetyki
- Issue Year: 2023
- Issue No: 31
- Page Range: 66-79
- Page Count: 14
- Language: English
