Embodied imaginations. About Conversation with your own leg by Anna Świrszczyńska Cover Image

Ucieleśnione imaginacje. O Rozmowie z własną nogą Anny Świrszczyńskiej
Embodied imaginations. About Conversation with your own leg by Anna Świrszczyńska

Author(s): Anna Swirszczynska (Swir)
Subject(s): Polish Literature, Evaluation research, Theory of Literature
Published by: Uniwersytet Opolski
Keywords: body; overrealism; surrealism; sensualism; identity;

Summary/Abstract: The subject of this article is Conversation with your own leg by Anna Świrszczyńska. In her one-act play, Świrszczyńska creates a bizarre world, which escapes understanding and ordering. This image openly destroys the logical order of reality, marks an original poetic imagination, sensitivity to the sound qualities of words, overrealism. Świrszczyńska also invites to this world numerous objects, materialized images, forged from words and senses, and suddenly and unexpectedly juxtaposes them with human characters. Somatic perception of the world may be helpful in finding one’s way in a cracked reality, devoid of order, and, finally, in the acceptance of such reality, which allows to read the play in the light of the problem of carnality.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 8
  • Page Range: 46-54
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Polish