Title: | Prochy doświadczenia w urnie pamięci : nad pudełkiem "Nieszczęsnych" B.S. Johnsona |
Authors: | Gruszczyk, Tomasz |
Keywords: | B. S. Johnson; Nieszczęśni; Brayan Stanley Johnson; The Unfortunantes |
Issue Date: | 2014 |
Publisher: | Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego |
Citation: | M. Krakowiak, A. Dębska-Kossakowska (red.), " Zobaczyć sens : studia o malarstwie, literaturze i życiu" (S. 187-199). Katowice : Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego |
Abstract: | In the article, the author discusses the artistic output of B.S. Johnson and he suggests that the
writer’s desire to confine his subjective experience to the work of art seems to be the common
element of his novels. As a heir of Joycean and Beckettian literary traditions, Johnson declares
that the only chance for literature — pushed to the margins of cultural communication by the
cinema — is to present everything that is individual and unique; everything that is internalised in
one’s personal experience. This claim for the explication of an individual thought in the pages of
a novel comes to the fore in “The Unfortunantes”. The form of separate pages placed in a box (an
element of liberature) is perceived here as a reflection of the random activeness of the mind and
memory. Simultaneously, it illustrates the described experience in its whole chaotic and incoherent
form. Moreover, it allows the readers to reduce the distance which usually exists between them
and the book, so that not only can they become its witnesses but also its confidants. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12128/2252 |
ISBN: | 9788380122925 |
Appears in Collections: | Książki/rozdziały (W.Hum.)
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