“Everything is Worth Describing:” The Case of Jacek Baczak Cover Image

„Wszystko jest warte opisania”. Przypadek Jacka Baczaka
“Everything is Worth Describing:” The Case of Jacek Baczak

Author(s): Justyna Szczęsna
Subject(s): Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: twórczość Jacka Baczaka;proza polska XX wieku;somatopoetyka;literatura polska XX wieku;ciało w literaturze

Summary/Abstract: Zapiski z nocnych dyżurów by Jacek Baczak is devoted to the world of hospices, which is generallyabsent from the world of multiplied presence. Baczak tries to describe it, to express thesuffering of this place through words, slowly passing away, and death. His description cannotrefer to ready-made matrices, schemes or tested and familiar languages. His description is thusconstructed from the simples, the most translucent, ascetic elements. Thanks to this, it becomespoignantly genuine and serving. While restrained in the face of death, it is also moving.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 19
  • Page Range: 62-75
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish
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