Jak jeździć na nartach. Autobiografizm w przestrzeni literacko-naukowej Kacpra Bartczaka

Abstract

The first part of this article discusses the specificity of Kacper Bartczak’s work, determined by the interdependence of his poetic, literary and translation activities. At the same time, the reasons for the lack of interest of critics writing about Bartczak in the issue of autobiography are indicated. The second part of the article, focused on a comparative analysis of two versions of a fragment of the autobiographical essay The Law of the Poem and the poem In Love I Have an Access to My Father’s Body from the book Naworadiowa (2019), shows that Bartczak’s purpose in including autobiographical material in his texts is not to point to the biographical underbelly of his work, but to gain new access to the matter of his own biography, allowing him to develop new techniques or forms of writing.

Keywords

• Kacper Bartczak
• recent Polish poetry
• Mark Twain
• skiing
• American pragmatism