On an electric arc : Andrzej Bobkowski writing / Maciej Nowak ; translated by Mikołaj Golubiewski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nowak, Maciej, 1970- author.

Series:

Cross-roads (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ; v. 25.

Cross-roads: Polish studies in culture, literary theory and history ; 25

Standardized Title:

Na łuku elektrycznym. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bobkowski, Andrzej--Criticism and interpretation.

Bobkowski, Andrzej.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

364 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Peter Lang, [2020]

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I "I Am Considered a Writer:" On Reception, Works Order, Metareflection, and the Central Position of Wartime Notebooks

Wartime Notebooks in Light of the Wartime Diary Manuscript

Nine Notebooks Versus Two Volumes

Contexts and Directions of the Manuscript's Transformation

1. Youth, America, Composition

2. Distance, Autobiography, Project

pt. II "The Passion for Recording:" About Writing Practices (And Not Only)

The Sphere of Writing

Capturing Everyday Life: Photography and Postcards

"I Send You a Reproduction:" Postcard

Remarks on Epistolography

Stages in a Journey, Stages of Writing: Geographical Determinants

The Personal - the Observed - the Experienced - the Reflected

Transgression: Unorthodox Writings

Between the Diarization of Epistolography and Periodic Diaristics

The Most Important Series of Notes: Diaristics

Writing, Practice, Existence

Narrative Strategies as Means of Dealing with Contingency

A. Memoir from the Time of Dying: Staging, the Anticipation of Death, Sincerity Toward

Memoir from the Time of Dying

B. Final Readings: Bobkowski as a Reader (of Increased Risk)

pt. III "I Listen and I Watch. Beauty:" On the Axiological Construction of Writing

1. The Eye: I'm All Eyes

2. The Ear: I Change into an Instrument

3. The Sharpness of a New Gaze, Unspoiled by Habits

Bike - City - Machine: The Experience of Modernity

1. The World of Engineering

2. An Entirely Peculiar Beauty

Chopin, or Culture Is Necessary to Live

1. The Unity of Culture and Forms of Experiencing Culture

2. Bobkowski's Chopin

pt. IV "The Issue of Religion, Faith, Life and the Soul of a Man:" On Spirituality

It's at Moments Such as These:-On the Conditions of Religious Experience

Gombrowicz's "I Almost Believed" and Nalkowska's "Everything in Life"

Can One Love God More

From Visible Beauty to Visible Holiness

Conrad Versus the Catholic Anglo-Saxons

De Profundis: Elements of Imagination and Religious Language.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and name index.

ISBN:

3631816995

9783631816998

OCLC:

1191126345

Publisher Number:

99986025470