Preparowanie mowy. Uroda na czasie Leopolda Buczkowskiego
Dissecting Speech: Leopold Buczkowski’s Uroda na czasie [Timely Beauty]

Summary/Abstract: Leopold Buczkowski’s experimental novel Uroda na czasie [Timely Beauty] is a loose literary composition based on various genres, “alien words” from different epochs and sources. Bukowiecka examines the ways in which Buczkowski transforms them, cutting them off from the context and situation in which they were uttered, disassembling and disintegrating them. The writer superimposes elements belonging to forms that have no apparent connection, or he merges them into abstract arrangements of utterances, following new laws that depart from the rules of pragmatics in speech. The procedures of Buczkowski’s transformations, Bukowiecka argues, are signs of his expression and the work’s ironic modality. They represent a veiled declaration of the impossibility of describing the world in an original way – an impossibility related to the writer’s personal experiences. Drawing on the work of Grzegorz Grochowski, Bukowiecka examines the instrumentation of genres in Uroda, i.e., the ways in which Buczkowski updates, problematises and analyses the meanings inscribed in the “memory” of the genres he uses.

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