Zdjęcie jako figura powtórzenia i nieobecności w "Zagładzie" Piotra Szewca
The photograph as a figure of repetition and absence in Piotr Szewc’s "Annihilation"

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the issues of mourning and the work of memory on the basis of the author’s reading of Piotr Szewc’s Annihilation. A crucial context for this analysis is provided by the figure of repetition understood as both Wiederholung and Wiederkehr. Putting together a story of the pre-war Zamość based on the metaphor of browsing through a photographic album, Szewc tries to repress the lack which stands behind the image of this world – the traumatic Real. The figure which saves but at the same time masks the lack of repetition is photography. The author treats the photographic image as Lacan’s objet petit a.

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