„Ej, dzielny karabinie, któż by się domyślił, co się w tobie ukrywało”. O wielkim semiologu
“Hey, Valiant Rifle, Who Would Have Guessed What You Concealed Within”. About a Great Semiologist

Summary/Abstract: This article about Pierwsza świetność by Leopold Buczkowski proposes the following thesis: certain elements traditionally situated within the presented world (such as a dewdrop, protocols, an archive, rifles) de facto function on more than a single structural level of a given work, outside the limits of the presented world. It is this mutual functionalisation of those elements that sets into motion the machinery of Pierwsza świetność. They are part of the novel’s reality, but, at the same time, they are factors constituting conditions for the possibility of the presented world, its ontology, plot configurations, and construction of the dramatis personae.

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