Miesiące Kazimierza Brandysa - quasi-dziennik czyli zmagania pisarza z fikcją oraz własną biografią

Abstract

In the years 1978-1987, Brandys's travel logs, everyday notes, reading notes, thoughts and recollections were being written in between Warsaw, New York and Paris. The written material was the basis for creating a quasi-diary whose four subsequent volumes bore the common title Miesiące (Months)- The work constituted a unique opus magnum in the emigration life of the writer. Brandys's peculiar understanding of the concept of fiction and plot is one of the most important problems of Miesiące, also with reference to his own biography. Jerzy Kandziora calls this phenomenon the creation of “natural plots”. Moreover, Miesiące is characterised with considerable multiplicity of problems, and as Brandys himself wrote, "they combine the anecdotal and recollective level with ample reflections".