The Imperative of De-Conventionalization Tadeusz Gajcy’s „The Scanty Vision” Cover Image

Imperatyw dekonwencjonalizacji. „Wizja skąpa” Tadeusza Gajcego
The Imperative of De-Conventionalization Tadeusz Gajcy’s „The Scanty Vision”

Author(s): Agnieszka Kluba
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Keywords: de-conventionalization; interpretation; meta-reflection; war poetry

Summary/Abstract: The article contains an interpretation of Tadeusz Gajcy’s poem The Scanty Vision. The poem shows the way the poet modifies the earlier forms of writing, noticing how insufficient they are under the conditions imposed by the war. The poem begins with a sophisticated image, but at the end it is reduced to an elementary confession of the will to act. This aesthetic redefinition would not be possible without a meta-literary self-reflection, without the need to escape convention, and the will to abandon subjectivity for the sake of struggle, even at the price of death – as a gift to the descendents.

  • Issue Year: 59/2011
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 89-100
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish
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