(Auto)kreacje Janusza Głowackiego

Abstract

In my text, I would like to brief1y ref1ect on the phenomenon of the artistic activity of Janusz Głowacki, in particular the beginning of his career. The researched literary material for the most part comprises of texts written in prose (early short stories and essays from Warsaw 'Kultura') and also dramas written before 1981. I am focusing primarily on the reception and interpretative potential of these texts, in this particular article, in a way, leaving aside the analysis of the plays as such and the prose pieces, or presenting a very general stance that requires further completion. In the first part I am presenting a literary profile of Janusz Glowacki, then I am discussing critical texts about his works. In the main part of the article, through pointing at the most important interpretative topics in the writer's texts, I am ref1ecting on the issue of building the project and vision of reality, which emerges from the discussed literary material. These projects, in my opinion, determine the popularity of the writer, which is not limited to commercial success (very frequent editions, reissue of published prose, translations into foreign languages) but also due to the unique and particular way of building up his literary narratives. My analysis attempts to review and identify new potential which, indeed, has been noticed by critics in literary texts of the author of Off My Mind [Z głowy], yet seems very likely to develop into a completely new direction. My approach to and way of interpreting Głowacki's texts, although in this article insufficiently explained and narrow, derives from the perspective of the concept of post-structuralist intertextuality and Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of dialogism.