Między „autentykiem" a „literackością". O »Żywym wiązaniu« Igora Newerlego
Between the original and literariness. About »Żywe wiązanie« (A Living Bond) by Igor Newerly

Author(s): Jacek Gałuszka
Subject(s): Polish Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Igor Newerly;
Summary/Abstract: In 1962, Igor Newerly began his work on Living Bond - a book, which was supposed to pave his way for „independence” and the same ensure complete creative sovereignty and freedom, unhampered by any ideological rigors. He chose a set of new compositional techniques, associated with the artistic achievements of the avant-garde of the first half of the 20th century and programs of the French „modern novel”. // First pages of Living Bond prove that it is a book departing from the so far works of the author. This distinctness is particularly clear in the selection of the form of expression - oscillating between a movie screenplay - thus something non-final that can still undergo far-fetched transformations and changes at all levels of work, and materials of autobiographical, document, or fictional character. // An exercise-book character of the novel not only question its final finite form, but also enable a self-creation of the writer - he becomes a hero of his own text and joins its individual segments. // Apart from autobiographical materials, the selection of certain genre conventions serves the authentication of the content included in the piece. These are forms of a diary, journal, letter, essay, chronicle, encyclopedia and „quotes from reality”. // The exploitation of such a great and diverse variety of narrative techniques makes it difficult to classify the discussed work in formal terms and places it among the then realizations of sylvan character and - what follows - the work is placed outside genre structures as a multi-thread and multifarious work. // Newerly’s book is not only a social document and a testimony of the era, or a collection of people belonging to the same communities and environments. It also reveals many features typical for narrative literary forms. // Certain „novelization” takes place in Living Bond, i.e. an intentional creation of a literary message with a certain similarity to a novel but with an assumption that this process cannot lead to a full identification with its structures. Thus, we deal with a transformation of scientific and utilitarian announcements: reviews, dissertation, articles and „quotes from reality” into literary announcements. // The main literary strategy of the author of Living Bond is thus reduced to the usage of only those types of narration and description, which result in a reduction or complete elimination of invented elements and contribute to their saturation with facts, which enables a placement of these realizations among „authentic” forms.

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