Śmierć i powrót podmiotu zdekonstruowanego - "Cząstkowa próba o człowieku" Witolda Wirpszy

Abstract

In the essay Witold Wirpsza's poem is analysed with a view to investigating the notion of the return of the subject. As a problematic emblem, the Barthesian call for the death of the author and, by inference, of the subject is here approached through Wirpsza's poem which appears to be an implicit counter−argument to the poststructural pronouncement. Throughout the analysis a number of Wirpsza's theoretical postulates are brought to the fore in order to evoke the context of the poet's perception of the task inherent in poetry. As a result it is argued that the poem under consideration in particular, but Wirpsza's poetry in general, seems to put forth a new vision of the human subject; in lieu of associating the self with a Cartesian stable formation, Wirpsza sets out to delineate a self which ceaselessly seeks new ways of describing its condition. In the discourse of poetry a search is instigated for a constantly new measure of being a man.