Fotografia i malarstwo jako przestrzenie budowania obcości na przykładzie Hanemanna Stefana Chwina
Photography and Painting as a Space of Alienation in Stefan Chwin’s “Hanemann”

Author(s): Olga Osińska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature
Published by: Ośrodek Badawczy Facta Ficta
Keywords: photography;painting;reference;exclusion;alienation
Summary/Abstract: In the chapter Photography and Painting as a Space of Alienation in Stefan Chwin’s “Hanemann”, Olga Osińska addresses the relations between the reception of a photography and a painting in reference to the eponymous Polish novel. At first, according to Francois Brunet, Osińska distinguishes between traditional and modern way of reading photographs, favouring the latter, constructivist theory that describes photographs as affecting its viewer with an impulse to create a fictional narrative. In the core part of the chapter, Osińska depicts how the novel’s protagonist, Hanemann, fantasizes about the idea of a suicide or his own sense of alienation, concluding, that the interpretation of a photography as a kind of confabulation can be seen therein not only as a way of a therapeutic self-identification, but also as a self-aware artistic strategy.

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