Przeciw autonomii. Pisarze-celebryci i próba rewizji illusio literatury
Against Autonomy. Celebrity Authors and an Attempt to Revise the Illusio of Literature

Author(s): Dominik Antonik
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: celebrity authors; literary field; economy of literature; sociology of literature; cultural economics; Pierre Bourdieu
Summary/Abstract: The article deals with Polish contemporary celebrity authors, who are treated as a complex phenomenon forming a new model of literary production and consumption. In that newfield of cultural production literature emerges in complex relations between the author and his image, text, media, economy, marketing, audience, general presence of the author and his work in the public space, and other varied non-textual forms of the presence of literature. The functioning of celebrity authors on such a great scale is enabled by the more and more complex relationship between fields of literature, media, and economy, which approach eachother and became more porous in order to easily exchange different forms of capital. The article considers these new conditions of cultural production in the context of a changing literary illusio. The proposed model of relational literary culture has been derived fromand contrasted with the dominating approach in academic criticism, based on Pierre Bourdieu’s notion of autonomy. In this criticised approach the phenomenon of celebrity authors is placed on the map of polarized fields of culture and economy and condemnedas an inauthentic and simple market invention. The author argues that literature can nolonger be considered as a field of struggle between high cultural value and economic capital.

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