Odcisk świata i światłoczułe odbitki – poszukiwanie nowej formuły realizmu w literackich deskrypcjach Andrzeja Stasiuka
The Imprint of the World and Light-sensitive Prints. Rethinking Realism and Materialism in Andrzej Stasiuk’s Literary Descriptions

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on Andrzej Stasiuk’s descriptive strategies, analyzed in terms of the descriptive turn and studies on presence, which make it possible to construct a refreshed formula of realism that takes into account current developments in epistemology and literary theory. Drawing on Horst Bredekamp’s study of the alternative history of mimesis, in which the concept of representation is replaced by mimesis understood as an imprint, the text shows how the idea of imprinting works in literary practice: not as imitation, but primarily as a mode of bearing witness to the experience of real presence. The article is thus a reading of Stasiuk’s literary descriptions through the prism of the categories of imprint, photosensitivity, and trace, and considers the notion of fidelity, familiar from realist prose theory, on an ethical level, proposing a reading approach in which literature is experienced as a form of witnessing presence.

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