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Returns of the Lost Author |
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Bogumiła Suwara |
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Little interest in empirical author within modern literary science has been in the recent decades of the 20th century problematized chiefly in Polish literary practice. The author has been returning into the Polish literary scholarly reflection by at least several ways: as a result of an incursion into the literature of paraliterary genres; as bringing the auto-consciousness of the author to present time, which starts the mechanism of mimesis; as a part of meta-fiction. The conception of a biographical triangle by Czermińska (evidence, profession, challenge) is presented on the background of a discussion on functions and conceptions of genological studying of literature (Balcerzan, Bartoszyński, Balbus). A characteristic tendency in Polish literature to mark the work of art by the person of the author, which is treated in the conception of presence of the author in a work as a process (not an artefact), has been approached by Zieniewicz as a style of behaving and style of realness, and, for example, presented by Nycz in a more widely conceived biographical discourse. For the authors of the youngest generation the auto/biographical methods of older generations become biographical figures, which are possible to use in diversely conceived situations of narration and metafiction. In the end of the study it is stated that in the Polish literary scholarly reflection different tendencies are present: studying literature in the framework of genological systems as well as discursive approach, in which genological notions are suppressed. |
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Keywords: Auto/biography. Biographical Triangle. Genology. Empirical Author. Polish Literature of the 20th Century. |
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