Luneta Rymkiewicza. Mediumiczne auto/biografie nowoczesnego klasycyzmu
Rymkiewicz’s Telescope: Mediumistic Auto/Biographies of Modern Classicism

Summary/Abstract: Wojda explores Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz’s biographies and autobiographies as presented in his prose, poetry, drama, translations and literary studies. Based on the hermeneutical principle that writing about others is also writing about oneself, Rymkiewicz’s (auto)biographies blend into one single discourse, and the metaphor of the telescope corresponds to the mediumship of this discourse. In the poet’s modern classicism, this mediumship is related to the formula of imitation as an intermediary between texts and persons – an intermediary in which equal weight is given to similarities and differences, closeness and distance. Reading Rymkiewicz’s works, especially the poem Exegi monumentum from the collection Thema regium (1978), Wojda draws attention to the paradoxical practice of combining mimeticism with fiction, bodily empiricism with the role of signs, cognition with creation. Assuming a diachronic perspective, Wojda shows that Rymkiewicz’s cultural hermeneutics transitioned into a micro-historical hermeneutics of existence, “the text of life”.

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