„Moje sobie przywłaszczone życie" - elementy autobiografizmu w prozie Jerzego Pilcha (na podstawie powieści Pod Mocnym Aniołem)

Abstract

The article presents an analysis of Jerzy Pilch's prose through the filter of autobiogra- phism and intertextuality. The Vistula River writer implements his readings and autobiographical components in the creation of his protagonists. Many of such implementation devices are purposeful and constitute part of the author-reader game. The author counts on the reader's reading background. He puts forward challenges and calls for tracing sources of plots, originals of protagonists and locations of plots. The author of the article also recalls Lejune’s thesis, who stated that autobiography would always be an auto-bio-copy. Expanding the words of the French theoretician of autobiogra- phism, she concludes that a man imitates another man often subconsciously. In the same way a writer creates his/her work relying on the output of others. On the one hand, s/he is accompanied by the awareness of a certain repetition, but on the other hand, s/he is not without the illusion of originality. Rejecting that hope of uniqueness would lead him/her to the discovery that his/her work is deprived of all sense.