Figury nieobecności / Retoryka pustki

Abstract

This essay analyzes figures of absence connected with both the rhetoric of emptiness and the poetics of disappearance. Moreover, it is an attempt to classify the discursive techniques that aim to represent the textual “gone” (places that no longer exist, were destroyed, and those in which the subject is no longer present). Attention is also devoted to the performative dimension of writing, which produces emptiness and, which through this production, fills the void and introduces it into a cultural net work. The essay explores literary examples from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.