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Analyzing Alexander Wat’s My Century as more than an account of an engaged participant in the events of Central and Eastern Europe, I would like to show its experimental potential, close to avant-garde aesthetics. (...)
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The article is an attempt to analyse the process of textual creation in Zygmunt Haupt’s short story Entropia. To that end, brouillons in the archives of Stanford University special collections, containing consecutive versions of the work have been consulted. (...)
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Although Conrad-inspired motifs are not frequent in Zygmunt Haupt’s prose, they do play and important role. Thanks to discovering similarities and differences they serve the author of Pierścień z papieru to describe his own writing method. (...)
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This article discusses the motifs of mountains and mountaineering in Zygmunt Haupt’s selected texts. The author analyzes how mountain spaces and experiences related to mountains are described, and also reflects on the scale of mountaineering fascinations. (...)
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With the tools borrowed from the psychoanalytical theory of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan, this article discusses the topic of the represented world, and especially literary characters, in the prose of Zygmunt Haupt. (...)
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In works by Zygmunt Haupt, the motif of entropy was a unique moment associating the speculative character of modern scientism with modernist prose. The scientific explanation – physics – is used to interpret the world’s natural and social history. (...)
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This article discusses the problem of description in the works of Zygmunt Haupt in the wider context of the contemporary “descriptive turn” in literary studies. (...)
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The paper discusses the claim that borders and frontiers are a source of experience, and at the same time a category which describes Haupt’s prose well. (...)
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The paper discusses the writing and philosophy of Jolanta Brach-Czaina, connecting it to micrology and maieutics. This poetological reflection considering the function of detail and work of similarities and differences in Brach-Czaina’s most significant works (Sofa, Szczeliny istnienia, Błony umysłu) identifies two tendencies of her philosophy: searching for a textual “representation of meaning” and a sensual description of “particles of being”. (...)
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This theoretical article discusses how the detail may function in the text and what reading strategies it calls for. The article aims to present a model of a counter-text, which exists, as if, alternatively to the text proper – it emerges when the reader examines the textual details and the contexts they open. (...)