| dc.description.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. | en_EN |
