Debora Vogel i gesty emancypacji
Debora Vogel and Emancipatory Gestures

Summary/Abstract: The author interprets Debora Vogel’s essays from the perspective of experiencing modernity: she focuses on insignificant gestures and on the gestures of insignificant people. She poses the questions about the gestures and properties of urban modernization, about the conditions of women visibility and that of working people, who are crucial in Vogel’s works. The subject of research is especially the process of such figures’ emancipation in the public sphere at the beginning of the 20th century. The author proves that the passively-dynamic Vogel’s literary style is strictly dependent on the pace of everyday life. The principle of rotation and repetition also dominates on the level of subject, inertness is not identified with stillness; by contrast, cyclicality well corresponds to circulation of things and programmed movement of figures in space. Vogel, however, rejects the referential model of art and its understanding, seeing in the connection between everyday life and aesthetics the relation of penetration, not mimetism

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