On an Electric ARC: Andrzej Bobkowski Writing

ISBN-13: 9783631816998 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 366 str.

Maciej Nowak

Opis

The book is a monograph on Andrzej Bobkowski's writings, a Polish author, diarist, epistolograph, and essayist, most famous for his diary Wartime Notebooks: France 1940-1944. The monograph offers an insightful reading of the existential functions of writing, autobiographic strategies, and the axiological dimension of Bobkowski's works.

Spis treści

The writings of Andrzej Bobkowski - Strategies of literary autobiography - Modern technology and changes in poetics - The senses in the construction of Bobkowski's axiological texts - Writing practices as means of coping with contingency - The religious imagination of modernist literature - Writers of the Paris-based Kultura millieu

O autorze

Maciej Nowak is Assistant Professor at the Center for the Study of Religious Literature, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. His work focuses on the relationship of literature and religion, novelist historiosophy, and modern diaristics and epistolography. He also publishes essays on jazz aesthetics and reviews on jazz music albums.