Upublicznić intymność : strategie tekstowego "bycia pisarzem" po 2000 roku

Abstract

The author of the article, looking at the Polish prose books published after 2000, analyses a peculiar demand for publishing (one’s own and other’s) intimacy, being the result of the social revolution, flexibility of cultural norms and the adjustment of the market to marketing pressures and trends for an “open confessionalism”. As a result, a storyline material becomes a writer’s biography that, being subject to a literary processing, allows for balancing between the reality and fabrication, and revealing as well as disclosing reality. The author of the article suggests distinguishing two strategies of using an intimate convention, inscribing into promotion-marketing mechanisms governing the market. The first one, the example of which would be among others Drwal by Michał Witkowski, Książka by Mikołaj Łoziński and Trans by Manuela Gretkowska, is based on camouflage. The second, represented by for example a diary trilogy by Gretkowska or Pałac Ostrogskich by Tomasz Piątek, is a more radical variety. (Self) therapism, self-creation conducted on various levels play with its own image. The issue of sincerity and credibility, problems with the articulation of “internal experiences”, dealing with the presence of the subject-matter of scandal and public-relation formatted necessity of the writer’s functioning in the public discourse would be the “crucial points” on which the attention of the previously-mentioned prose writers concentrate.