The Black Notebook: On the Nonexistent but Possible Poems of Wisława Szymborska Cover Image

Czarny notes. O nieistniejących, ale możliwych wierszach Wisławy Szymborskiej
The Black Notebook: On the Nonexistent but Possible Poems of Wisława Szymborska

Author(s): Michał Rusinek
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: poetry; manuscript; rhetoric; enumeration; genetic criticism; synecdoche; anastylosis

Summary/Abstract: I attempted to read Wisława Szymborska’s notebook containing notes on her poems –both the written and unwritten ones. Among them, I found and organized the themescharacteristic of Szymborska’s poetry. I propose a rhetorical and genetic reading of themand use the category of anastylosis to imagine the poems that might have been written.I also reflect on the ontological status of the notes (fragment, element, prefabricatedcomponent, radical) and encourage an in-depth study of the “black notebook.”

  • Issue Year: 2024
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 130-144
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish
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