Obrazy na wygnaniu? Literackie reinterpretacje dzieł malarskich
IMAGES IN EXILE? – Literary Reinterpretations of Paintings

Summary/Abstract: Śnieciński highlighted and analyzed three different strategies of usingand reinterpreting images described by prominent contemporary writers.In novels entitled In Praise of the Stepmother and Don Rigobert’sPapers by M.V. Llosa, paintings are considered as catalyst for literary narration. Llosa takes organizes a game with dual nature images;he plays with the relationship between mental images and the media.P. Quignard’s strategy is ‘thinking with images’. His Night Sex is based onquotes from concrete paintings. He combines text with visual narration.The internal dialogue between ‘quoted’ images allows the writer to formulatehis questions about sources of imagery. G. Perec’s novel entitledLife: User’s Manual includes images, which are an important element inlife-project of one of the characters; they only considered as a form of literary scenario. The scenario for life includes commentary on many phenomenaand trends in contemporary art (eg. conceptualism, minimalism,performance art). In all of three strategies, paintings did not lose theiridentity, although they have been deprived of their roots in materiality.Images gained different potential for action, a new form of existence.

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