Między snami. Elementy biblioteki - sennika w książce Bezpowrotnie utracona leworęczność Jerzego Pilcha

Abstract

In his book Bezpowrotnie utracona leworęczność, Jerzy Pilch says that “a library is a collection of dreams”, whereas “literature is an eternal going out of a dream and entering a dream”. Those words become the main thesis of the paper, which shows the incessant game of the writer with the reader consisting in recalling ever new fragments of past dreams, and careful observation of the reactions evoked in the reader. However, it is impossible to discover all of the texts which are composed into this volume entitled Bezpowrotnie utracona leworęczność (Irretrievably Lost Left-handedness). Therefore, the paper evokes only the most essential ones for Jerzy Pilch’s writing. Those include: the Bible - the Original Book and the source of infinite references and creative inspiration, the contemporary poetry whose traces can be discerned in the author’s phrase, Bruno Schultz’s prose in which “reading" is also one of the keywords, and also Sigmund Freud’s texts inextricably connected with the notion of dreaming. The texts referred to are only a few comebacks to reading which demonstrate that in this book, everything happens in-between. The author’s nostalgic journey to the past times happens among dreams. The descriptions of fellow human beings walk the fine line between loftiness and derision, seriousness and irony, while Pilch’s own writing continues to wage a war between a column and a short story. The paper signals the necessity of further research into the prose of this author in which many interesting dreams-mysteries still remain to be discovered.