On an Electric Arc

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 19401944 . The monograph offers an insightful reading of the existential functions of writing, autobiographic strategies, and the axiological dimension of Bobkowski's works.

Maciej Nowak's book is the first monograph on the writings of Andrzej Bobkowski (19131961), a Polish émigré writer from the millieu of Jerzy Giedroyc's Kultura journal. Bobkowski is famous for his diary Wartime Notebooks: France 19401944 , translated into many languages, including English. Using current methods of the French school in the study of diaristics and epistolography, Nowak overcomes the limits of aesthetic analysis to reach the anthropological center of Bobkowski's authorial practices. In this way, Nowak unveils the existential and axiological dimension of Bobkowski's work. Thus, the book offers a coherent depiction of the rich and diverse writings of Bobkowski, prepared with methods of modern humanities.

Auteur

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.

Contenu

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