Tomasz Bąk. Jego nagrody
Tomasz Bąk’s. Literary Awards

Summary/Abstract: The year 2021, which marks the 10th anniversary of Tomasz Bąk’s literary debut, invites us to examine the poet’s work and his achievements from many perspectives. In her reflections, Agnieszka Budnik analyses and interprets Bąk’s poetry through the prism of his awards. She treats the literary award as an institution and a nodal point, which makes possible the reading of the poetic text up close and simultaneously from a distance. This approach allows Budnik to position Bąk’s poetry in the broader context of a poetic field and thus to uncover, if only partially, the mechanisms at work in that field. Literary awards are not, she argues, a point-like event in the annual literary calendar; rather, they operate like an institution by managing the flow of the author’s prestige, the operations of publishing houses, the tastes of readers (including critics and jurors), and even the shape of the community (thanks to the fact that they affect the formation of the literary canon). Seen from this perspective, Bąk’s poetry can be regarded as a model example of these processes: it came into being and has evolved thanks to awards, but awards have also caused it to be petrified.

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