Symulacja w literaturze, czyli o „Encyklopedierotyku” - epistolarnej i postmodernistycznej powieści Ewy Kuryluk
Simulation in Literature, or on “Encyklopedierotyk” (“Encyclopaedioerotic”) - Ewa Kuryluk’s Epistolary and Postmodern Novel

Summary/Abstract: Ewa Kuryluk’s Encyklopedierotyk (Encyclopaedioerotic, 2001) occupies a significant place in the writer’s output. It is viewed as turning point in her creativity: it completes the postmodern period while gradually releasing the element of autobiography. The novel parasites on the 18th c. epistolary tradition; it is a postmodern mystification where one cannot tell the true from the false. The author thus is trying to prove that the text works on Jean Baudrillard’s principles of simulation: both enchanting (seduction, illusion, painting, trompe-l’œil) and disenchanted (pornography, hyperrealism). The mechanism of simulation allows for describing to this day unclear strategies of Kuryluk, who, intermingling the illusory reconstructions with hyperreal details, both reveals and conceals the reader from herself. Simulation is also linked to the novel’s structure—illusiveness of building material—the letter that contains a suspended and seducing scientific discourse, as well as marks a consecutive “autobiographical hiding” in Kuryluk’s creation.

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