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    Published: 2019-01-11
    No. 1 (2017)

    ALEKSANDER WAT AND HISTORICAL EXPERIENCE

    Agnieszka Czajkowska
    Colloquia Litteraria
    Section: SZKICE - ROZPRAWY - INTERPRETACJE
    https://doi.org/10.21697/cl.2018.1.5

    Abstract

    Aleksander Wat and historical experience An exceptionally complex biography of Aleksander Wat, apparently present in his literary output, makes him a person especially privileged that betoken the history of the 20th century. A historical experience constitutes for Wat an artistic problem, literature becomes a record of his experience – a direct and authentic record. However, since writing is not only an ethnic obligation but also the inclusion into a widely understood cultural context, Wat undertakes the attempts of communicating with the world, it becomes though more and more difficult for the poet due to the lack – in his opinion – of a suitable poetic language for the description of the world. The outcome of it is Wat’s reaching the borders of the speech – to silence ([Zakułem się w pancerz myślenia...]). What Wat considered in his experience as the most important, it becomes therefore strengthened not only in his poetry but, above all, in Mój wiek [My Century] – a text not written but spoken, tape recorded; richness (“the excess of information”), digressiveness but also some breaking up, some formal “splitting up” of this text, reflects most fully heterogenous, complicated, full of suffering Wat’s experience. A vitally important in this situation is Czesław Miłosz, Wat’s interlocutor whose discreet presence, wise posing of questions orders the picture drawn chaotically by Wat.

    Keywords:

    Aleksander Wat

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    Czajkowska, A. (2019). ALEKSANDER WAT AND HISTORICAL EXPERIENCE. Colloquia Litteraria, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.21697/cl.2018.1.5

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