Napięcia autobiograficzne

Abstract

This article analyses Artur Hellich’s book Gry z autobiografią: przemilczenia, intelektualizacje, parodie (Games with autobiography: concealments, intellectualisations, parodies), which outlines various strategies for processing the autobiography genre paradigm. Hellich analyses the variations of playing with the traditional model of confession represented primarily by writers of Jewish origin, especially Polish authors publishing in the PRL (Polish People’s Republic) period. The research material includes works of Kazimierz Brandys, Stanisław Lem, Roman Zimand, Artur Sandauer, Philip Roth, Paul Karl Feyerabend and Michał Głowiński. The article shows category of conventions against the background of transformations of twentieth-century literary theories. Literary criticism practices that attempt to define intimacy as a supra-species phenomenon have been highlighted.

Keywords

• literary convention
• structuralism
• cultural theory of literature
• PRL (Polish People’s Republic)
• writers of Jewish origin