Solipsyzm materialistyczny, albo dociekania psiogłowca
Materialistic Solipsism or Investigations of a Cynocephalus

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the relation between the mind, world and narrative in Thomas Bernhard’s first novel, Frost (1963). The author identifies Bernhard as a writer who presents his contingent locality as a point of the world’s intensified monstrosity. Having analysed the narrative strategies, basic figures, the narrator’s position and images of the writing process as such the author discusses Frost in relation to Bernhard’s later works in order to describe the situation of the subject in the world of the novel. This world is characterised as a reality of the “materialistic solipsism,” a space of materialised impressions which traumatise the protagonist who, in turn tries to defend himself against the world in his endless monologues. His narrative is highly ambiguous: it destroys the narrator who is struggling to master the world in the very act of writing.

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