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Гомбрович, социолог в безтегловност
Gombrowicz, a Sociologist in Weightlessness

Author(s): Jean-Pierre Salgas
Contributor(s): Zornitza Draganova (Translator)
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: Bourdieu; Gombrowicz; sociology of literature; The Rules of Art

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the mask of Gombrowicz as a “street Bourdieuian”. The two thinkers are seen as “contemporary” in their corresponding ideas in this excerpt from Jean-Pierre Salgas’s book Gombrowicz structuraliste de la rue (2011). Three moments showing how Gombrowicz understands Bourdieu while Bourdieu explains Gombrowicz are discussed. Gombrowicz’s Ferdydurke is read as the origin of sociology of literature in Poland, his Diary – as a practice of sociology “in weightlessness”, and his Against Poets – as a manifest against the literary (art) religion, an anti-Heideggerian act of anti-fascination.

  • Issue Year: 5/2019
  • Issue No: Special
  • Page Range: 77-87
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Bulgarian