Michał Głowiński i „świadomość nieszczęśliwa”
Michał Głowiński and “Unhappy Consciousness”

Summary/Abstract: The article treats Michał Głowiński’s body of work – comprising literary theory, literary criticism, essays, autobiography, and fiction – as a single text, écriture, akin to Roland Barthes’ concept of writing as presented in The Death of the Author. Within this realm, the author seeks traces of G.W.F. Hegel’s concept of ‘unhappy consciousness’, a cognitive state characterized by a persistent, structural incapacity of the writing subject. The article argues that the signs of this ‘unhappy consciousness’ are dispersed throughout Głowiński’s entire oeuvre, rather than being confined to predetermined areas such as autobiographical accounts of Shoah. The analysis delves into diverse textual levels to uncover these signs: words, intertextual relations, realist style, character construction, plots, metatexts, and methods of evoking and composing memories.

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