Wyjścia. Awangardyzacja jako asumpt do kanonizacji (kazus Różewicza-poety)
Exits: Avant-gardisation as an Incentive to Canonization (the Case of Różewicz the Poet)

Summary/Abstract: The article aims at determining the specificity of the canonical character of the poetry of Tadeusz Różewicz – one of the most important Polish writers of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century. The perspective is that of continual canonization, corresponding to the multiplicity and dynamism of modern canons, and, eventually, to constant avant-gardisation. The study is divided into four parts relating to four aspects of Różewicz’s transgression. The first part contains a general description of the postulated category of canonical character in the context of Różewicz’s work; the second part describes the type of avant-garde characteristic of the author of Exit; the third is concerned with negative poetics. The fourth part sums up the issue by discussing the most recent selection of Różewicz’s poetry – Znikanie [Disappearance] edited and with a commentary by Jacek Gutorow, himself a poet and literary scholar. The problem of paradoxical continuation based on variability, poetic tradition, and the strategy of external canonization of the writer is discussed resulting in the creation of a new canon of his poems.

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