Szeptucha jako ucieleśnienie poetyki niedopowiedzeń w opowiadaniach Vitala Voranaua ze zbioru Szeptem (2014)

Abstract

The aim of this article is to show how Vital Voranau uses the poetics of understatement in the collection Szeptem, how it affects both the reader’s reception of the text and the way the characters are portrayed in the narratives. At the beginning, the character of szeptucha (folk healer) was briefly introduced, as well as the concept of traditional knowledge. An attempt was made to assign the discussed collection of short stories to literary genres (life -writing), based on the author’s biography and his statements in the interviews. Then the short stories were shown in the context of Frazer’s magical thinking and a more contemporary concept of new materialism. Using selected narratives as an example, it was described how a folk healer (szeptucha) works with her patients, using traditional knowledge and how her character is performed as the embodiment of the poetics of understatement.