Unstructured, unprocessed, unused. Witold Wirpsza’s journals
Unstructured, unprocessed, unused. Witold Wirpsza’s journals
Author(s): Piotr BogaleckiContributor(s): Paulina Zagórska (Translator)
Subject(s): Polish Literature, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
Keywords: Witold Wirpsza; Dated notes; out of order; Witold Wirpsza's archive; diaries; autobiography; life writing; experiment; neo-avant-garde;
Summary/Abstract: The paper explores the question of autobiographism of the neo-avant-garde literary works by Witold Wirpsza, trying to determine the significance of journal as a genre to it. Wirpsza’s meta-literary comments present him as an author who rejected biographism in favor of experimenting. It is simultaneously shown that some of his poems (especially from Granica wytrzymałości and Przypomnienie Hioba) and novels (Pomarańcze na drutach, Sama niewinność) can be read as results of experimenting with life writing. The analysis of Wirpsza’s unpublished journals, especially the notebook entitled Zapiski datowane, bez porządku confirms the poet’s disdain for intimate writing and consolidating psychological states.
Journal: Forum Poetyki
- Issue Year: 2023
- Issue No: 33-34
- Page Range: 42-57
- Page Count: 16
- Language: English
