Leo Lipski, Sławomir Mrożek
Leo Lipski, Sławomir Mrożek

Literary testimonies of language recovery after experiencing aphasia

Author(s): Olga Hellich
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: aphasia; speech disorders; multilingualism; speech and language therapy; autopathography; Leo Lipski; Sławomir Mrożek
Summary/Abstract: The author starts with a general outline of the speech therapy’s and literary studies’ perspective of reading the text by a writer with aphasia. The main part of the article discusses the strategies adopted by Leo Lipski and Sławomir Mrożek for recovering – learning – language(s) after both writers experienced this speech disorder. The author discusses and compares these strategies, functionalized and thematized in the literary and the autobiographical works of Lipski and Mrożek, and in this attempt she refers to published texts as well as the archives. Contextually, she also reconstructs the problems of multilingualism and emigration related to their works. The author concludes that, despite many differences between the experiences of both writers, the methods of learning Polish after suffering aphasia, which were adopted and described by them, are very similar.

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