Narracja i performatywność. O późnej prozie Leopolda Buczkowskiego
The Narration and Performativity. On Leopold Buczkowski’s Late Prose

Author(s): Bogdan Owczarek
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Leopold Buczkowski; performativity; non-narrativity; war; trauma; Holocaust; prose; novel; unfictionality; experiment; avant-garde; collage
Summary/Abstract: The book focuses on late works of Leopold Buczkowski, one of the most unusual and controversial Polish writers of the 20th century, often called a “Polish Beckett”. The author analyses in detail "Timely Beauty" ("Uroda na czasie"), "Bathing in Lucca" ("Kąpiele w Lucca"), "The officer at the Vespers" ("Oficer na nieszporach") and "A Stone in the Nappies" ("Kamień w pieluszkach"), published after 1970 Buczkowski’s late works considered the most hermetic and the least commented on. Buczkowski’s works linked Polish literature to the most important trends in the avant-garde Western novel. The key problem and motif of the book is the crisis of the novel in contemporary prose and performativity.

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