Zbrodnia zwielokrotniona. Próba definicji „antybiograficzności” na podstawie „Gnoju (antybiografii)” Wojciecha Kuczoka
The Multiplied Crime: Towards a Definition of Anti-Biographicity in Wojciech Kuczok’s „Gnój (antybiografia)”

Summary/Abstract: This article explores the meanings embedded in the titular concept of “antibiography” in Wojciech Kuczok’s novel. The notion functions, among other things, as a record of the son’s internal disintegration caused by the actions of an abusive father, while simultaneously bearing witness to a rupture that constitutes the very process of subject formation. The study seeks to identify and analyse the contradictions and paradoxes inherent in this neologistic concept, which emerge as the central dynamic of antibiography itself. These include tensions between identity and the fragmentation of the self, existence and annihilation, as well as narrative and its negation. The discussion is situated within several, often divergent, interpretative frameworks, including theories of narrative and the impact of violence on personal development. Violence is understood here as a cruel method of upbringing that leads the subject to experience a sense of non-existence. The article also engages with antinatalist thought, particularly the work of David Benatar, one of the most influential contemporary representatives of this philosophical position (reference to concepts such as a life not worth beginning, a life worth or not worth continuing, and the asymmetry between pain and pleasure). This plurality of perspectives, combined with a close reading of Kuczok’s novel, seeks to capture the broad spectrum of meanings and ambiguities inherent in the concept under discussion.

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