Transakcje Aleksandra Wata
Aleksander Wat’s Transactions

Summary/Abstract: The sketch is an attempt at analysing the different meanings in which the economical concept of exchange is revealed in Aleksander Wat’s creativity. The author of “Buchalteria (Bookkeeping)” not only enters into the antique tradition of conceiving of thinking, language, and literature in the categories of exchange, but also many times at various stages of his creativity builds theoretical models of literature and literary language based on the category of exchange. The sketch’s starting point is the definition of “economy of literature” proposed by Michał Paweł Markowski and its close connection with the concept of realism as well as Markowski’s pointing at one of the most fundamental feature of “critical modernity literature” in which literary language is seen as “inexchangeable speech.” Yet, interpretation of Aleksander Wat’s texts shows a slightly different mode of describing modern literature in the categories of exchange in which language idiomaticity lies precisely in infinite possibility of substitution.

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