Protest i skandal, czyli o tym, co „niedopuszczalne”
A Protest and a Scandal

On What Is “Unacceptable”

Author(s): Przemysław Pietrzak
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Sociology, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: scandal; prohibition; convention; avant-garde; dadaism; futurism; repression
Summary/Abstract: The author is concerned with a scandal deliberately created in the work of art (especially in literature). He distinguishes it from a scandal understood as an appraisal of someone’s act or behaviour. He considers intentional scandal in its function of protest, uniting a triple kind of provocation: social, artistic and political. Founding examples for such a kind of activity can be noticed among various groups of European avant-garde in the first decades of the 20th century. Analysing separately each of the three elements, the author states that the driving force of a deliberate scandal is a revelation of something that should have stayed concealed. He emphasizes that the norms and prohibitions broken by a scandal are always of common and historical nature.

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