How to Ski. Autobiography in the Kacper Bartczak’s Literary and Academic Space Cover Image

Jak jeździć na nartach. Autobiografizm w przestrzeni literacko-naukowej Kacpra Bartczaka
How to Ski. Autobiography in the Kacper Bartczak’s Literary and Academic Space

Author(s): Łukasz Żurek
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Studies of Literature, Pragmatics, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: Kacper Bartczak; recent Polish poetry; Mark Twain; skiing; American pragmatism

Summary/Abstract: The first part of this article discusses the specificity of Kacper Bartczak’s work, determined by the interdependence of his poetic, literary and translation activities. At the same time, the reasons for the lack of interest of critics writing about Bartczak in the issue of autobiography are indicated. The second part of the article, focused on a comparative analysis of two versions of a fragment of the autobiographical essay The Law of the Poem and the poem In Love I Have an Access to My Father’s Body from the book Naworadiowa (2019), shows that Bartczak’s purpose in including autobiographical material in his texts is not to point to the biographical underbelly of his work, but to gain new access to the matter of his own biography, allowing him to develop new techniques or forms of writing.

  • Issue Year: 18/2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 65-76
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish