In Jerzy’s archive: spaces of memory, spaces of dispersion, recesses of interpretation. A review of „Poeta w labiryncie historii. Studia o pisarskich rolach Jerzego Ficowskiego” by Jerzy Kandziora, Fundacja Terytoria Książki, Gdańsk 2017

Abstract

In his book Poeta w labiryncie historii. Studia o pisarskich rolach Jerzego Ficowskiego (Poet in the labyrinth of history. Studies on writer’s roles of Jerzy Ficowski) Jerzy Kandziora strives to provide a holistic outlook on the literary output of the author of Ptak poza ptakiem (A bird beyond birds). The main interpretation categories proposed by the scholar include time, labyrinth and history. They allowed the author to create a cross-section book ranging from describing Ficowski’s pre-poetic life, through his literary and artistic fascinations with Schulz, Wojtkiewicz, Tuwim and the everyday world, to the experience of borderland, both literal and poetic. Using this essayistic and also in some fragments synthetic form of description, Kandziora marks a new trend in interpreting the poet’s output and draws attention particularly to the impact of the social imaginary for the functioning of the poet in contemporary literary studies.