Zdrobniałe jąkanie. Teologia afatyczna w Piotrusiu Leo Lipskiego
Diminutive Stutter. Aphatic Theology in Piotruś of Leo Lipski

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the theological motifs of Leo Lipski’s work, particularly those present in the micronovel Piotruś. Instead of focusing on the gestures of profanation and blasphemy – already well recognized by commentators – it follows the dynamics of the messianic traces hidden in this work, which the writer derives both from Christian and Judaic tradition. The key model of messianic linguistic activity in Piotruś is the diminutive, already identified in the title. The secret matrix on which Lipski constructs the novel is, in turn, the idea of „exodus” as a potentially universal experience motivated by the promise of emancipation of a peculiar and particular life. Terms of distorted and heretical theology (the novel’s subtitle calls it „apocrypha”) seem to serve here as autobiographical cryptography by means of which a writer hidden under the pseudonym “Lipski” encrypts the experience of his own disability, aphasia, and permanent mourning. In this way he lays the foundations for what I call “aphasic theology”, in which fideistic contents articulate only through strange stutters.

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