Ruchome słowa Roberta Walsera. Analiza związków ruchu, kroków, materialności i słów w Mikrogramach
Robert Walser’s Movable Words: Relationships of Motion, Steps, Materiality and Words in the Microscripts

Summary/Abstract: Jakubowicz-Prokop examines how material and tools influence literary content inscription. The example of Robert Walser’s Microscripts – a collection of short prose pieces written on scraps of paper, remarkable for their tiny script in pencil – suggests how the very inscription of a text shapes its form and what a significant impact the means of inscription has on the content conveyed by that form. Thanks to this, the text becomes a spatial phenomenon, it gains material weight. The text is the effect not only of intellectual but also of physical labour. Building on the theories of Michel de Certeau and Tim Ingold, Jakubowicz-Prokop demonstrates that the meaning of Walser’s texts is realized in the tension between thinking and acting as well as between art and technology.

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