Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Topics like sorrow, grief, pain or sickness are not widespread in the life writing of avant-gardes.Would you agree with this?I assume that among the classic Polish literary vanguard art the sole work would be Tadeusz Peiper's auto-patographical prose and Aleksander Wat's post-war life-writing records about his illness.However, both examples are rather classical in their poetics.Instead, I would like to talk today about literary works that are embodied in crisis (specifically suffering, grief, illness, or loss) and reflect on that in an experimental way.Is this a vast tradition in contemporary literature?Wojciech Drąg: Literary avant-gardes tend to be associated with experiments for experiments' sake.Their intense preoccupation with form seems to leave little room for serious content.
Source: Autobiografia
Authors: Honorata Sroka, Wojciech Drąg
Institutions: University of Warsaw, University of Wrocław
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
Funder: Narodowym Centrum Nauki
OpenAlex ID: W4407916133