O prozie Brunona Schulza w teatrze: problemy adaptacji

Due to the many unsuccessful theatrical adaptations of Bruno Schulz’s short stories, it is customary to say that his prose is ‘non-stage’. The reason for the failures of these adaptations lies not in the literary original, but in the specific methods of staging. Directors and adapters often repeat similar mistakes. Not all theatrical realizations based on work of Schulz are bad, there are also highly rated ones. There are two ways the adapter could take to show this prose in the theatre: capture the ‘spirit of the original’ or use the text as an inspiration.

Opowieść ze „Stolicą” w tle. Odkrywanie fotograficznego obrazu powojennej Warszawy

This photo essay is based on a poetic narrative about Polish post-war photography, which was published in 1946 in the Stolica [The Capital] magazine. The text presents in a detailed way authentic, archival photographs presented originally in this journal. Therefore, the article displays a varied range of photographic compositions created both by famous and unknown photographers. The specific structure of this photo essay was inspired by one of the short novels written by Julio Cortázar, where narrative escaped temporal linearity.

Od powieści filozoficznej do teatru (post)epickiego? Kosmos Witolda Gombrowicza w inscenizacji Jerzego Jarockieg?

The aim of the article is to present the way in which Jerzy Jarocki transforms Witold Gombrowicz’s Cosmos into a theatrical script. The director does not try to extract a purely dramatic form from the novel, but creates a dramatization that takes into account the epic elements of the work. He proves with his realization Od powieści filozoficznej do teatru (post)epickiego that the producer does not have to deconstruct the work or even modernize it in order to introduce a discussion about the work and its readings to the stage. The scenography (created by Jerzy Juk-Kowarski) is extremely important in the context of the realization of the Cosmos, which allows the creators to place the staging in a specific philosophical context, enlivens the recipient’s imagination and, in a way, forces an active reception of the work.

Granice literatury, granice poetyki, granice granic dzisiaj. Jedno pytanie

The subject of reflection in the article Boundaries of Literature, Boundaries of Poetics, Boundaries of Boundaries Today. One Question is the place and role of poetics in contemporary Polish humanistic research. The author makes a short recapitulation of stages and themes of the ongoing discussion on the status of poetics (especially) in the last three decades, which, in her opinion, are particularly important. The widening of its boundaries, seen and significant for contemporary culture, prompts the author to ask about the extent to which the categories and tools of poetics are used in the contempor

Figury grozy w literackiej i malarskiej twórczości Zdzisława Beksińskiego

The author of this article focuses on the category of dread which is characteristic of Beksiński’s works. It is an original phenomenon because of the tools that create it and its influence on the poetics of the artistic text. The most important areas of the artist’s literary works and paintings in which he operated with dread, were space, characters and colors. Due to the similarity of means of expression shaping dread in stories and paintings, one can speak of transmedia figures of dread in Beksiński’s work, i.e. metaphor, exaggeration, oxymoron, repetition, animation, play with the perspective and points of view. These figures coexist with each other, interact with each other in the process of creating a unique world of dread, characteristic only to Beksiński. On the other hand, dread itself affects the tools that make it up and transforms the effect of their operation. The author of the article calls such a phenomenon ‘acquainted dread’ – the action of the figures used, initially causing dread, is reversed and means that the presented elements – despite the clear features causing fear – cease to be its source for the recipient.

“Un combattente tenace”: il cardinale Wyszyński raccontato dal «Corriere della Sera» (1950-1981)

Stefan Wyszyński (1901-1981), cardinal, archbishop of Warsaw and Gniezno from 1948 to 1981, Primate of Poland, was one of the most important post-World War II personalities in Poland. He was the key person in establishing the relationship between the Church and the Communist regime for over thirty years. From 1950 to 1981, the "Corriere della Sera", one of the oldest and most prestigious Italian newspapers, wrote a lot about Wyszyński. This essay analyzes its work in a critical way, keeping in mind the historical period and the opinions of the Italian national press.

Kulturowe czy polityczne wojny domowe? Mit i rewolucja w poezji dwudziestolecia międzywojennego

The article presents the history of the concepts of myth and revolution in political poetry in the 1930s. Under the pressure of politics, these terms lost their meaning assigned by tradition. This observation leads to conclusions of a more general nature: the essence of involvement and the role of literature as an intermediary between politics as a historical source and politics as a paradoxically non-ideological activity. Thus, literature as an institution mediates in immunizing politics, especially radical politics. Becoming a serious element of the order dictated by the cultural canons existing in equilibrium and their reinterpretations.

Interfejsy intymności. Tendencje intymistyczne we współczesnych grach wideo

The article concentrates on a specific tendency that can be observed in some video games created in recent years. This trend is that more and more video games present an intimate perspective and focus on the individual experience of the protagonist. The author of the article approaches the phenomenon in question mainly from the interpretative and genological perspective, since video games are not a media form commonly identified with the expression of intimate, formative or identitycreating experiences. The author starts with an analysis of the reasons why video games and intimistic texts are commonly perceived as very distant genre forms. Then he analyzes those video games that represent the intimistic tendency: Bury me, my Love (The Pixel Hunt, 2017), A Normal Lost Phone (Accidental Queens, 2017) and Wanderlust: Travel Stories (Different Tales, 2019). The analysis leads to the following conclusions: what is common for all the three discussed games is i.a. a particularly important role of the text as the basic semiotic material in which the game is realized. Even though Interfejsy intymności this concentration on the word is not a necessary condition of intimistic poetics – it definitely helps introducing such a dimension into the work. What is more, two of the three discussed games use the strategy of remediating a smartphone. In both cases, the creators designed new interfaces modeled on the real ones and turned navigating on the phone screen into basic game mechanics. This, in turns, means that intimistic tendencies in video games stimulate reaching for new genre forms. This process of remediation is possible mainly because modern intimacy has shifted very clearly towards the digital, and smartphones have become its basic tool. This phenomenon, which the author of the article calls ‘intimacy 2.0’, is a result of the fact that: (a) contemporary culture is deeply anchored in the digital and its interfaces, and (b) the importance of smartphones in everyday communication and media consumption has been growing enormously in recent years. The final conclusion of the paper is as follows: all the discussed games use an intimate perspective to evoke empathy, which was not a typical video game design goal. This is especially interesting, given the fact, that all the analyzed games remain primarily commercial products that are driven by the laws of the market.

Historiozofie dziennikarskie. Na marginesie książki Na wschodnim posterunku. Księga pielgrzymstwa 1915-1918 Zygmunta Wasilewskiego (1919)

The article describes the ideas of interpreting history and historical experience in the journalism of Zygmunt Wasilewski during World War I. History, initially surrounded by culturological categories, sociological and psychological methodology, eventually becomes political history. Related to the journalist’s predictions about Poland’s return to world maps. The concept of history and its interpretations evolve towards its political interpretations, which Wasilewski will use in his interwar writing period.

Notatki filmowe Piera Paola Pasoliniego na tle literackiej i filmowej poetyki brulionu

The article is devoted to the form of film ‘notes’, defined by the author as nonfictional films depicting preparations for the production of fictional works. The author describes this particular subgenre of film essay in the context of other forms of self-referential non-fictional cinema, and also comparatively confronts it with self-referential literary notes, in which writers present their creative process. The subject of the analysis are three works realized by Pier Paolo Pasolini: Sopralluoghi in Palestina per il vangelo secondo Matteo (1965), Appunti per un film sull’India (1968), Appunti per un’Orestiade Africana (1970). The author draws attention to the production of these films and describes the process of shaping the ‘notes’ formula in the films of the Italian director. The article then discusses the main features of the form of ‘notes’, such as: heterogeneity, variability, polyphony and the subjectivity. As the author argues, although analogous tendencies can be found in literary notes and film ‘notes’, media contexts significantly change their form and configuration. While in literary notes the tension between the signifier and the signified seems to be the most important, in film ‘notes’ the most important is the relationship between the interpretant and the objects, which cannot be ‘subordinated’ to the concept of the film director.