Introduction
In the present article, I formulate new premises for narrative studies. My starting point is the problematic interpretation of The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz. A close reading of this classic text of Polish modern literature demonstrates that the status of the world described by Schulz is problematic.
(...)
The first paragraph of “A Simple Heart” brings a brief description of the main character, Mrs. Aubain, a concise presentation of her maid Felicia and a much more detailed description of the house that both characters lived in:
This house had a slate roof and stood between an alley and a narrow street leading down to the river.
(...)
In his book Realpoetik. European Romanticism and Literary Politics Paul Hamilton describes European romanticists as the successors of the ethos of the republic of letters, nurtured despite the grim historical reality which followed the fall of the great revolution.
(...)
We publish Polish translation of the fragment of Paul Hamilton’s Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics, Oxford 2013.
Introduction
I borrow the term “directional tensions” from the Polish polymath, artist painter, writer, playwright, art critic and visionary, Witkacy.1 We all know how he died. Having learned that the Red Army crossed the eastern border of Poland, he committed suicide on September 17, 1939.
(...)
Artur Sandauer investigated the relationship between mise en abyme and realism already in his papers devoted to meta-reflection: Konstruktywny nihilism, O ewolucji sztuki narracyjnej XX wieku and Samobójstwo Mitrydatesa1, although he did it indirectly.
(...)
D’un Réalisme Sans Rivages [Realism without borders] by the French critic and Marxist thinker Roger Garaudy is one of those books that are difficult to discuss. Both the author and the reader of this article may feel anxious about the topic.
(...)
The problem of representing the world through literature has played a significant role in the history of the modern novel, attracting attention of authors, theorists and literary critics.
It is closely connected to aesthetic-literary, poetological, and normative issues; it also encompasses the philosophy of literature, relating to – at least in an implicative way – epistemological strategies and ontological assumptions of a given historical-cultural period1.
(...)
The personal documents published in the Archiwum Kobiet [Women’s Archives] series constitute exceptional editorial and publishing projects. The authors of the editorials, who found and read the 19th century manuscripts, equipped them with introductions, biographical notes, timelines, appendices and comments, at the same time resigning from modernising the texts and abandoning other editorial interventions.
(...)
“Sealed in a self-sufficient microcosm, the town and its countryside have boldly installed themselves at the very brink of eternity.”
(B. Schulz, Republic of Dreams)
A book by Jerzy Madejski, Poetologie postrukturalne.
(...)