Nagłówek Holofernesa (Notatki o Judycie)
The Holofernes Headline (Notes about Judith)

Summary/Abstract: An analysis of the role played in Michel Leiris’ L’Age d’homme by the Biblical legend of Judith. The decapitation of Holofernes is a „prime scene of the autobiographical genre: an autobiography produces the same effect as the act performed by Judith – its separates the head from the body and renders the person who embarks upon the task of self-presentation distant from himself”. An identification of Leiris with Holofernes produces an autobiographical project, conceived as an experience of that which cannot be grasped by the grammatical first person – it makes it possible for Leiris to vanish from his autobiography.

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