Paradoksy zamierania gatunku

Abstract

A reflection on the literary genre define the paradox and contradiction. For example, as Beaujour says, between genre in the empirical, historical, normative sense and genre in an absolute sense, there lies the difference that separates empirical naïveté from (post)philosophical sophistication. The paradox of necessity and impossibility of separating genres is reflected by Derrida in his essay Law of genre. Every text participates in one or several genre, there is no genreless text; there is always a genre and genres, yet such participation never amounts to belonging. Because, in the works, we can observe what we call the evolution of literary forms manifested among others by: internal division of the trait, impurity, corruption, contamination, decomposition, perversion, deformation, even cancerization, generous proliferation or degenerescence. Opacki describes it as hybridization. How Derrida says: “the clause or floodgate of genre declasses what it allows to be classed”. But, seen by Derrida, passing of genre, the degenerescence from the moment of birth, beginning of the end, paradoxically, they are essentially the vitality of literature, the principal of survival