Formy powrotu (do pisania). Powiedzmy… Alejandro Zambra
Ways of Going Home (and Back to Writing). Say… Alejandro Zambra

Author(s): Arkadiusz Żychliński
Subject(s): Comparative Study of Literature, Polish Literature, Other Language Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Alejandro Zambra; comparative literature; literary evolution; progress in/of literature
Summary/Abstract: The article starts with the striking observation that the writing of Alejandro Zambra, a distinctive contemporary Chilean writer of the middle generation, can be treated both as a string of intriguing experiments sounding various ways of (a personal going back to) writing, and as a convenient frame of reference to discuss the notion of the progress in literature. Accordingly, a comprehensive analysis of Zambra’s literary work intertwines with questions concerning the spectrum of literary innovations, the conditions of the possibility of producing new narrative dispositives, the limitations of formal inventiveness, and the regulative function of the cognitive value added.

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