„Weź go gdzieś tam, gdzie wy łazicie z tymi linami”. Kuczok – góry – literackość
“Take him somewhere where you guys are hanging out with those ropes”. Kuczok – Mountains – Literariness

Summary/Abstract: The article touches upon climbing and speleological themes in Wojciech Kuczok’s prose. The author analyzes traces and potential influences of the poetics of mountaineering literature in Kuczok’s narratives and essays – in selected sketches of the collections Poza światłem, Moje projekcje, in the stories Spiski. Przygody tatrzańskie and the Rozmemuary journal. What is interesting is the relationship with model narrative genres – the bujdałka (a mountain record) and the expedition story, as well as the mode of evoking and activating a central quality of the literary-aesthetic mountaineering relationship, namely, the “corporeal sublime,” which is a response to the problem of expressing the specificity of the kinesthetic experience of the rock vertical space. Kuczok fits into the “kinesthetic culture” typical of mountaineering and speleology – he uses professional lexis, knowledge and discourse. He rewrites his own non-literary movement and space practices – he fictionalizes and conceptualizes the experience of mountain space, combining it with the literary nature he has developed. A gradual increase in climbing and speleological themes in Kuczok’s work coincides with an increasing popularity of mountain literature and its position in relation to the mainstream literature.

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