Notatki do autobiografii, Przyczynek do biografii. Jerzy Andrzejewski – dzieło (i życie) otwarte
Notes for an Autobiography / A Contribution to a Biography: Jerzy Andrzejewski’s Open Work (And Life)

Summary/Abstract: Śmieja reviews Anna Synoradzka-Demadre’s biography of the writer Jerzy Andrzejewski (published in 2017). He explores this work’s relationship to Andrzejewski’s own autobiographical experiments and argues that Synoradzka-Demadre’s choice of formal openness (in her title Synoradzka-Demadre refers to her work as a “contribution”) corresponds to the writer’s preference for sketch-like or draft-like open forms. Śmieja also questions Synoradzka-Demadre’s notion of “privacy” and suggests that it would have been beneficial to blur the boundaries between “private” and “public” and to consider instead the psychoanalytical notion of “extimacy”.

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