Against Confession: Negation of Commodity Form in Anna Adamowicz’s Book of Poems "zmyśl[ ]zmysł" ("nonsense[ ]sense")

Abstract

Drawing inspiration from Nicholas Brown’s work on the social ontology of art under capitalism and Anna Adamowicz’s poetry book "zmyśl[ ]zmysł" ("nonsense[ ]sense"), the article explores the implications of anti-confession literary strategies and how they negate the work’s commodity status. The author argues that literary confession may be intertwined with the commodity status of a literary work, reflecting broader economic and ideological mechanisms that increasingly commodify literature.

Keywords

• commodification
• LGBTQ
• autonomy of literature
• Anna Adamowicz
• modern Polish poetry