Stefan Szymutko, as can be judged from declarative statements found in some of his writings, never wanted to be a “literary theoretician,” understood (very selectively and unfairly) as someone who in Heideggerian terms “talks away” the work of literature, keeping its truth from being voiced. (...)
Intersemiotic translation, alongside intra- and interlingual translation, was one of the three types differentiated by Roman Jakobson in his famous article “On Linguistic Aspects of Translation,” and was meant to encompass a translation situation in which a transfer takes place between two different semiotic systems – natural and machine language, literary text and image, image and sound, etc. (...)
The Poetics of the e-Novel
The bold, world-creating ideas of Jacek Dukaj and their bravura execution have made readers of his prose (most prominently, Lód [Ice]) begin to ask themselves more or less the following questions: “What will he think of next?” or “How far is he going to go?” These questions concern his work purely in terms of their literary qualities: the way he shifts the boundaries of what is imaginable, and shifts human language toward the boundary of the Other. (...)