"Styczność" jako paralogika poezji czystego nonsensu
„Contiguity” as the paralogic of pure nonsense poetry

Summary/Abstract: When we say „pure nonsense,” do we mean: stainless, uncontaminated? How should we conceive of those lacking stains? Is it sense? Perhaps the solution would be to concentrate not on the opposition between pure and contaminated, but rather – on the absolute nonsense. Such an understanding would correspond with the opposition between the logical, actual world and its opposites: pure nonsense and poetry – illogical in its very nature, with its similes and metaphors, not to mention oxymorons. And yet when one confronts the logic of the actual world with one’s own experience of this very world, this logic turns out to be an illusory presupposition, because even the most nightmarish nonsense contains, at least contextually, a microrational element of sense. Sense invariably turns out to be the sine qua non of nonsense. Such an argument is supported by both the ancient theory of metaphor and simile, and the examples from Julian Tuwim's and Stanisław Barańczak's poetry.

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