BÝT „MEZI“. NAD DÍLEM RENATY PUTZLACHER
To be “in between”. On Renata Putzlacher’s work

Summary/Abstract: Renata Putzlacher (15 June 1966, Karviná, Czech Republic) studied at a Polish grammar school in Český Těšín and went on to earn a degree in Polish Studies at Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Till 1997 she worked as a literary manager of the Polish scene of the Těšín theatre. She represents a generation affected by the moral and political crisis of the 1980. At the start of her literary career, Renata Putzlacher lived on the periphery, on the margin, with “margin” being often understood as something that does not take part in the creation of values. This article argues that Putzlacher’s collections of poetry, drama texts as well as her essays reveal the “margin” as something that generally supplements the cultural context and – in a deeper sense – forms an alternative to the predominant and preferred centre, as something that disrupts “self-evident” truths, thus helping to preserve the authenticity of writing. The style-oriented reading of Putzlacher’s work illuminates some time-bound literary relations and expressions, points to peripheral phenomena and relativizing margins and borders which should be taken into account by literary critics.

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