Doświadczenie – pamięć – pismo
Experience – Memory – Scripture
The Life and Work of Leo Lipski
Author(s): Antoni Zając
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: experience; Leo Lipski; 20th century Polish literature; memory; scripture
Summary/Abstract: A collective monograph devoted to Leo Lipski, a 20th century Polish Jewish author. The contributors discuss the links of Lipski’s works with texts by other writers, situate him in Polish and European literary life, and analyze hidden autobiographical motifs, including in correspondence and drafts, pointing out the theme of trauma and the recording of trauma, ubiquitous in Lipski’s writings.
- E-ISBN-13: 978-83-235-6025-8
- Print-ISBN-13: 978-83-235-6017-3
- Page Count: 204
- Publication Year: 2023
- Language: Polish
„MYŚLĘ O L.L. […] – CZY ŻYJE?”
„MYŚLĘ O L.L. […] – CZY ŻYJE?”
(“I AM THINKING ABOUT L.L. […] IS HE ALIVE?”)
- Author(s):Maciej Libich
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:17-30
- No. of Pages:14
- Keywords:interwar period; Egotyki; Lipski; Polish literary magazines (1918–1939); O niepokoju i śmierci; On Anxiety and Death; Weintraub
- Summary/Abstract:The author aims to describe and reconstruct the relationship between Leo Lipski and the poet Jerzy Kamil Weintraub on the basis of three unknown Lipski’s letters, found in the Józef Czechowicz Museum of Literature in Lublin and the Mickiewicz Museum of Literature in Warsaw. The author argues that this relationship significantly influenced Lipski’s life and works. Both authors worked together in two literary groups: “Zrzeszenie Najmłodszej Literatury” (The Youngest Literature Society) and “Wektory” (Vectors). The author also shows the influence Lipski’s writing (especially Egotyki) had on Weintraub’s war diary. He argues that Lipski’s works can be an interpretative key to the whole diary.
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LITERACKA SCENA PIERWOTNA: LIPSKI – SCHULZ – NAŁKOWSKA
LITERACKA SCENA PIERWOTNA: LIPSKI – SCHULZ – NAŁKOWSKA
(LITERARY PRIMARY SCENE: LIPSKI, SCHULZ, NAŁKOWSKA)
- Author(s):Jan Potkański
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:31-45
- No. of Pages:15
- Keywords:anxiety of influence; minor literature; masochism; psychoanalysis
- Summary/Abstract:The article reconstructs the phantasmatic deep structure of "Niespokojni" and "Piotruś" by Leo Lipski as reproducing the relationships in Polish literature circles, especially between Bruno Schulz and Zofia Nałkowska, at the end of the interwar period. The main tool for this reconstruction is psychoanalysis, developed in Gilles Deleuze’s and Harold Bloom’s theories.
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W LESIE "KRÓLA OLCH": SCHULZ – LIPSKI – TOURNIER
W LESIE "KRÓLA OLCH": SCHULZ – LIPSKI – TOURNIER
(IN THE FOREST OF THE "ERLKÖNIG": SCHULZ, LIPSKI, TOURNIER)
- Author(s):Piotr Łuszczykiewicz
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:46-58
- No. of Pages:13
- Keywords:German ballad; ekphrasis; intertextuality; transgression
- Summary/Abstract:The sketch is dedicated to prose references to "Erlkönig", a famous ballad by Johann Wolfgang Goethe. The author compares its evocations in the works of Bruno Schulz, Leo Lipski, Stefan Zweig and Michael Tournier. They are a kind of ekphrases: the poet’s text is not quoted directly, but appears to be a reminiscence of a reading, recitation, lecture or a literary image. A special place among them is occupied by a fragment of Lipski’s short story from "Niespokojni", in which the performance of Goethe’s ballad by a teenage character triggers a multifaceted transgression: erotic, mental, linguistic.
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OBRAZY PRZEMIAN MATERII W PISARSTWIE LEO LIPSKIEGO W KONTEKŚCIE ALCHEMICZNEJ KONCEPCJI MATERIA PRIMA
OBRAZY PRZEMIAN MATERII W PISARSTWIE LEO LIPSKIEGO W KONTEKŚCIE ALCHEMICZNEJ KONCEPCJI MATERIA PRIMA
(THE IMAGES OF MATTER CHANGES IN LEO LIPSKI’S WRITINGS IN THE CONTEXT OF ALCHEMICAL CONCEPT OF MATERIA PRIMA)
- Author(s):Mateusz Pytko
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:59-77
- No. of Pages:19
- Keywords:abject; alchemy; Bataille; gnosis; Mann; materia prima
- Summary/Abstract:From the beginning of his creative work, Leo Lipski struggled with a problem that could be described as follows: how can matter be included in the language corpus in such a way that when it is literally translated it will not become unreal. He expressed this exceptionally “materialistic” approach to the process of shaping words in one of the letters to Michał Chmielowiec, where he wrote: “even the most sublime creative work is of the same flesh and blood as anything people create. […] in general all creative work means one thing to me: struggling with matter, with material.” Researchers of Lipski’s work tried to link such ideological declarations and their creative realisations with Georges Bataille’s concept of the informe. The article shows that the concepts close to the informe as well as Lipski’s dream to sublime “fertilizer” into something “alive” has a rich history dating back to at least the third century AD. One of the interpretative aims of the text is to show that creative images Lipski adhered to are secularized equivalents of the alchemical concept of materia prima. The article also analyses the images, symbols and allegories Lipski used to express the transformation process of this multiform and paradoxical (simultaneously live and dead) matter he chose as his object of creative sublimation.
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POSTZAGŁADOWE PRZEISTOCZENIE
POSTZAGŁADOWE PRZEISTOCZENIE
(POST-HOLOCAUST TRANSFORMATION)
- Author(s):Andrzej Brylak
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:78-95
- No. of Pages:18
- Keywords:perversion; representation; sarx; soma; transubstantiation; Holocaust
- Summary/Abstract:The author interprets the story Św. Paweł in the context of Leo Lipski’s interest in Catholicism, which can be seen in his prose and letters. Lipski uses St. Paulʼs conceptual matrix, but reverses its governing mechanisms: in Lipski’s version a physical body is transformed into a spiritual body not through negation, but through the affirmation of desire. This transformation is a nucleus of a major process of transforming the bodies of those murdered in Holocaust into a text. To this end, the writer transforms the formulae of the Liturgy of the Eucharist, inscribing the Catholic dogma of transubstantiation in his perversive literary project.
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JANEK – WIDMOWY ŁĄCZNIK
JANEK – WIDMOWY ŁĄCZNIK
(JANEK – A GHOST LIASON)
- Author(s):Antoni Zając
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:96-123
- No. of Pages:28
- Keywords:Holcman; homotextuality; cryptography; Lipski; Weissman
- Summary/Abstract:The article focuses on Janek, the character in Leo Lipski’s novel "Niespokojni". The researchers have so far devoted little space to description of homoerotic motifs in his works, even though they return with a certain regularity. The thread of Emil and Janek’s close relationship in "Niespokojni" should be considered crucial in this context, therefore the author interprets this thread broadly in the first part of his article. The author uses the methodology of men’s studies and queer studies, pointing to the tension between homotextuality as the poetics of unspoken desire and experienced, emancipatory homosexual identity, which is present in the first chapters of the novel. In the second part of the article the context is biographical: the character of Janek is modelled on Lipski’s close friend, the pianist Jakub Weissman, but the name also suggests the links with another writer’s friend, Jan Holcman. Janek is a character crucial for the structure and significance of "Niespokojni".
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"NIESPOKOJNI" – UTAJONA GROZA
"NIESPOKOJNI" – UTAJONA GROZA
("NIESPOKOJNI" – LATENT DREAD)
- Author(s):Andrzej Zieniewicz
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:124-132
- No. of Pages:9
- Keywords:inno-text; weak existence; memory memes; perversion-violence; cold
- Summary/Abstract:In Leo Lipski’s "Niespokojni" we can find scenes surprisingly similar to the motifs present in his later short story "Dzień i noc", written in a labour camp. The text did not exist when Lipski finished "Niespokojni" and was to be written a few years later. The article asks how prefigurations, ”ghosts” of the motifs from the later text could be found in the earlier novel and how they introduce the atmosphere of latent dread to the reality of the late 1930s shown in "Niespokojni".
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PISANIE: PERYFERIA ŻYCIA
PISANIE: PERYFERIA ŻYCIA
(WRITING: PERIPHERIES OF LIFE)
- Author(s):Paweł Paszek
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:133-150
- No. of Pages:18
- Keywords:egotics; form of life; Lipski; writing; text
- Summary/Abstract:The author of the article attempts to look at Lipski’s works from the perspective of scattered and abandoned works, versions and projects for some larger works, unfinished drafts, notes and memos, which were left by Lipski like a quaint archive of peripheral texts. The works called by Lipski himself “egotics” constitute its important part. A micrological reading of one of them, titled "Inny skrawek nocy", shows the most significant semantic elements of the text, pointing to their continuation and realization in Lipski’s works.
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SPOTKANIE
SPOTKANIE
(A MEETING)
- Author(s):Hanna Gosk
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:151-161
- No. of Pages:11
- Keywords:Lipski; Piotruś; narrative volume; Koselleck; substory; presence of the past
- Summary/Abstract:Using Lipski’s novel "Piotruś", the author analyses narratives introduced to Lipski’s prose as a story within a story, like substories heard by the narrator-hero or like his own memories, recurring in his mind or told to the others. She argues that the substories stem from the meeting of the past with the present of the after-war world, which has lost its old framework, but has not established the new one. Substories – thanks to their fragmentary, digressive, open character – make the form of the whole work broader, corresponding to the images of the world without a model description. They show the narrator-hero suspended between the traumatic past and unwanted, devoid of future prospects, present. The “past presence” (a term by Reinhart Koselleck) is of special importance in those narratives.
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„PAN MA WYGLĄDAĆ NIEAPETYCZNIE”
„PAN MA WYGLĄDAĆ NIEAPETYCZNIE”
(“YOU HAVE TO LOOK UNAPPEALING”)
- Author(s):Aleksandra Naróg
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:162-178
- No. of Pages:17
- Keywords:Ahmed; Kristeva; Lipski; Piotruś; repulsion
- Summary/Abstract:The article analyses the experience of disgustingness in Leo Lipski’s "Piotruś". This micronovel is interpreted as a multi-level narrative about repulsion, constitutive of perceiving the world and the importance of physicality, sexuality and identity. "Piotruś" records the functioning of affection: the representations of tastes, smells or physiological functions are simultaneously marked by repulsion and fascination. Using the images of excretion, bodily secretions or vomiting, Lipski attempts to describe the crisis and trauma of subjectivity. The affection becomes a way to describe and feel not explicitly expressed phantasms. Repulsion is also present in Lipski’s descriptions of Jewish rituals and customs. The main hero in Piotruś is “neither subject nor object”, and contact with him makes other characters – and the readers - review their previous beliefs about various aspects of human life. The theoretical context for the proposed analysis is provided by the works of Julia Kristeva, Mary Douglas and Sara Ahmed.
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BACHMANN – LIPSKI – OPEL
BACHMANN – LIPSKI – OPEL
(BACHMANN – LIPSKI – OPEL)
- Author(s):Piotr Sadzik
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:179-197
- No. of Pages:19
- Keywords:aphasia; archives; Bachmann; Lipski; Opel
- Summary/Abstract:The article presents a number of findings concerning Leo Lipski’s biography, based on unexplored archival materials. The author indicates German as a native language of the writer, looking at the textual functionalities of the problem and reconstructing Lipski’s relationships with the German cultural circle and arguing that the person who directly contributed to the German translation of "Piotruś" was Adolf Opel. It was Opel who made his partner, Ingeborg Bachmann, interested in Lipski’s writing. Citing the latest archival discoveries, the author briefly discusses the surviving collection of Lipski’s letters to the Austrian writer.
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