Michała Cichego doświadczanie przestrzeni

Abstract

The author analyzes the poetics of affective topography in the works by Michał Cichy. Her close reading of the texts demonstrates that the interpretative parts gradually give way to the record of the bodily and sensual. Cichy’s emotive descriptions of his Warsaw neighbourhood, Ochota provide insight into the life of the place and its inhabitants. His poetics frequently reveals such features as micrological descriptions and the use of animal (canine) perspective in experiencing place. This last tenet places Cichy’s works within the framework of (non-anthropocentric) phenomenology of perception and anthropology of everyday life.