Od tekstu do życia – Czapski i jego Proust
From Text to Life – Czapski and His Proust

Summary/Abstract: From text to life – this is the direction that delineates a trajectory conducted by Józef Czapski reading "À la recherche du temps perdu" by Marcel Proust. Turning to diary notes ("Wyrwane strony" and "Dziennik wojenny") and sketches the author of the article discusses the manner in which Czapski rendered Proust an instrument of recognition: finding a bearing in one’s creative work (successes, failures, crises), in life and experiences: emotions, affects, sensations, and passions. The sketch "Proust w Griazowcu", situated in this perspective – a record of lectures on "À la recherche du temps perdu" and conducted by Czapski in a Soviet prisoner of-war camp at the turn of 1940–1941 – is presented not solely as yet another evidence of “intoxication by Proust” but predominantly as a performative text. In it Czapski creates himself as a causative subject.

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