Meandry wizualności w prozie Gustawa Herlinga-Grudzińskiego
Intricacies of the Visual in the Prose of Gustaw Herling-Grudziński

Summary/Abstract: This article is dedicated to a review of questions related to the categories of seeing and the visual in the prose of Gustaw Herling-Grudziński. The paper shows the functions of the eye and seeing, as well as the signifi cance of the literary images created by the writer. It also points out to the painterly stylistics which provide an important context for understanding the eclectic character of the visual layer of his works. On the example of some chosen extracts from the story entitled Wieża (The Tower), the article presents the sensual richness of the ideas used by Herling-Grudziński, focusing on the methods he adopted and describing the main goals he wanted to achieve by his application of certain literary tools.

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