„Myślenie wzrokowe” w prozie Ireny Jurgielewiczowej
“Visual thinking” in the prose of Irena Jurgielewiczowa

Author(s): Małgorzata Chrobak
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Somapoetics; sight; youth novel; Irena Jurgielewiczowa
Summary/Abstract: Combining the traditional, realistic techniques of depicting the hero’s image with an in-depth inner biography is undoubtedly one of the most important achievements of prose by Irena Jurgielewiczowa. The writer utilizes the technique that the author of the article calls “visual thinking”. Seeing, perceiving, sense of sight, and looking at things are decisive in the construction of interpersonal narrative relationships, as well as in the description of the character. The main characters of the most important works by Jurgielewiczowa have the gift of observation, they are at the same time observing, being looked at and surreptitiously watched. A glance is a source of knowledge about characters because it expresses personality traits, emotions, and awareness of one’s own position. The subject of the article is a specific “poetics of sight,” visuality and visibility as the properties of Jurgielewiczowa’s writing practice. Referring to somapoetics, the author discusses the functionality of the categories of corporeality, body and physiognomy in the (re)interpretation of the prose of this outstanding, though somewhat forgotten prose.

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