„Umarli stanęli w moich oczach”. Wizualna widmowość w poezji Tadeusza Różewicza
“Umarli stanęli w moich oczach”. Visual Spectrality in Tadeusz Różewicz’s Poetry

Summary/Abstract: The author of this article attempts to analyse the phenomenon occurringin many of Tadeusz Różewicz’s poems, which consists in a special relationshipbetween vision, imagery and visuality and the appearance (or recurrence)of the dead. This phenomenon is mainly interpreted in relation to JacquesDerrida’s hauntology and Władysław Strzemiński’s Teoria Widzenia and his notionof the after-image. The starting point of the analysis is the reconstructionof Różewicz’s ambivalent position regarding the image-poetry relationship (thepoet’s simultaneous emphasis on the primacy of the visual in his imaginationand his desire to reject the aesthetic image-metaphor). Through readings ofspecific works of Różewicz (mainly Wiersz pisany o świcie, Spojrzała w słońce,Światła cienia), the author of the article proves that in the analysed workthere is a contamination of perception and remembrance, in which the presentis marked by a spectral, indelible trace of the past, and memory is mediatedby visuality. He also points to the complex relationship between life and death(light and darkness), as well as the ethical orientation of the phenomenon in question,relating it to Derridean spectral ethics.

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