TY  - BOOK
AU  - Maciej Nowak
PY  - 2020
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2191-6179
SN  - 9783631834824
TI  - On an Electric Arc
T2  - Andrzej Bobkowski Writing
DO  - 10.3726/b17559
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1118003
N2  - Maciej Nowak’s book is the first monograph on the writings of Andrzej Bobkowski (1913–1961), a Polish émigré writer from the millieu of Jerzy Giedroyc’s Kultura journal. Bobkowski is famous for his diary Wartime Notebooks: France 1940–1944, translated into many languages, including English. Using current methods of the French school in the study of diaristics and epistolography, Nowak overcomes the limits of aesthetic analysis to reach the anthropological center of Bobkowski’s authorial practices. In this way, Nowak unveils the existential and axiological dimension of Bobkowski’s work. Thus, the book offers a coherent depiction of the rich and diverse writings of Bobkowski, prepared with methods of modern humanities.
KW  - writing practices, wartime diaries, modern epistolography, axiology of literature, Central European modernism, émigré literature
LA  - English
ER  -