Autobiography as „Object Trouvé” in Adam Ważyk Essays Cover Image

Autobiografia jako „obiekt znaleziony” w eseistyce Adama Ważyka
Autobiography as „Object Trouvé” in Adam Ważyk Essays

Author(s): Andrzej Zieniewicz
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Media studies, Studies of Literature, Communication studies, Sociology, Polish Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: found object; centripetal poem; centrifugal poem; discontinuous flow; abrupt structure; proto-language myth; magic; fetish; arrogance

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the features of Adam Ważyk’s autobiographical essays written in the 1960s which relate it to the programmes and theories of the Futurist avant-garde of the 1920s, especially the proposals of understanding poetry which were close to the idea of the found object. However, neither in these programmes nor in his own (later) biography does Ważyk notice, or rather he very carefully withholds, the tendency for avant-garde ideas to turn into a fascination with totalitarian ideologies, mainly leftist, which after all characterised his own stance as an author in the first half of the 1950s.

  • Issue Year: 19/2022
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 97-108
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish