„O końcu świata, który trwa, przypominam sobie nieczęsto, są bowiem sprawy ważniejsze”
‘The End of the World, Which Lasts, I Do Not Often Remember About, Because There Are More Important Things'

Haunted Everyday Life in Małgorzata Lebda’s Mer de Glace

Author(s): Mateusz Kaliński
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Polish Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Polish poetry; ecopoetics; ecocritics; hauntology; climate catastrophe
Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to analyze Małgorzata Lebda’s "Mer de Glace" (2021) in terms of the tension that seems to arise between the seemingly calm, harmonious everyday life and the “end of the world”, which can be identified as a climate catastrophe. Using the Derridian concept of hauntology, I try to read Lebda’s works as a testimony of attempts to exorcise the spectrum of the ongoing crisis by creating alternative, non-anthropocentric models of being in the world and immersing them in everyday life.

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