Pejzaże pamięci Agaty Tuszyńskiej a konwencja reportażu i proza Singera

Abstract

Singer. Pejzaże pamięci is a book of many author-voices. The author treats the work of the novelist as a code, which is only understandable to fans of Isaac Bashevis Singer. She explores the most appreciated elements in his prose, such as the character, the structure and stylistic form. She constructs her book in such a way that it can be read as one of Bashevis’s novels. And yet, in order for the reader to perceive her book as a reliable biography, Tuszyńska combines various types of narration: realistic novel, report, essay and biographic story. This kind of juxtaposition facilitates clashing the past against the present and the inter-war reality with literary fiction. Both levels confer with each other through assimilating or repelling as mutual contacts of the two styles leave their components unconnected.