„Sztuka objawia życie!" Dialog życia i sztuki w twórczości Leopolda Buczkowskiego

Abstract

The text of Art displays life! The dialogue between life and art in Leopold Buczkowski’s literary output was created as a result of reading two diaries of the author, namely Grząski sad and Powstanie na Żoliborzu. It expresses the desire to combine two different, and yet inseparable domains of human existence. This co-existence is based on strictly defined principles delimited by play and dialogue. The play is undertaken with reference to the reader, who enters the dialogue with the author and the text. The text itself is a collection of various dialogues. It leads to a specific narrative structure called ‘casket quotation’. Intertext pressure enhances the intertextual dialogue, which is conducted on several planes. Intertextuality and collage are present in all Buczkowski’s works. The author juxtaposes his own texts and other texts beside drawings and various forms of expression. Initiating the play between particular components of the presented world and including the reader in it leads to the existence of ever-present, continuous and open dialogue. All these actions are aimed at the creation of a piece of literature that would present a holistic approach to life. Leopold Buczkowski’s works include several basic indicators of contemporary postmodernist prose, the most characteristic ones being the ever-present dialogue, intertextuality, collage and the idea of the Book.