Rewriting oneself, rewriting strangeness — Zyta Oryszyn’s case Cover Image

Przepisywanie siebie, przepisywanie obcości — przypadek Zyty Oryszyn
Rewriting oneself, rewriting strangeness — Zyta Oryszyn’s case

Author(s): Agnieszka Czyżak
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe
Keywords: trauma; feelings of not belonging to any places; strangeness; inexpressibility; rewriter

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt at sketching the main problem of Zyta Oryszyn’s prose, her novels (written before 1989 Black ilumination and Madam Frankensztajn) and especially stories collected in volume tittled Salvation of Atlantis, edited in 2012. The most important theme of all her works is strangeness, strong feelings of not belonging to any places, moments of history, communities or relationships. During whole artistic evolution Oryszyn rewrited this theme in many different ways, so she also rewrited herself that is to say her own biography, experiences, emotions and recollections. The author convinces that the opportunity to recognition oneselves identity is to activate human and artistic sensibility and to try to understand every difficult relations with Others.

  • Issue Year: 57/2014
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 99-109
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish