Michał Krzykawski investigates the works by Bataille and Sollers, showing paradoxes of dialectic relationships between the literature and the language.

Keywords : Bataille; Sollers; the death of language; literature; eroticism

Katarzyna Gadomska devotes her text to the science-fiction literature, predestined to create the aura of understatement by nature. The author focuses on the short stories by Bours and Andrevon.

Keywords: Bours; Andrevon; mystery tale; the unsaid; secrets

In her text devoted to the science-fiction literature, predestined to create the aura of understatement by nature, Aleksandra Komandera concentrates on the works written by Gripari.

Keywords: fantastique; magic realism; fantasy; genre; category; the supernatural; unexplained / inexplicable phenomena; hesitation

Karolina Kapołka deals with the conflict relationships between characters made by Michel Tremblay, a Quebec writer, in which hatred takes on a variety of forms: from direct to veilled and indirect.

Keywords: hatred; dominance; family; mother; Tremblay

The game of the said, understated and unsaid is revealed by Grażyna Starak, showing the fundamental differences between the text to be said on the stage, and fragments of replicas crucial for the text to be understood inserted in brackets which the author does not approve of uttering at the time of the performance.

Keywords : Koltès; drama; the unsaid; dialogue; unsaid reply lines

Krystyna Wojtynek-Musik analyses the allegory of the sun and the beloved in the sonet by Gaspara Stampa, paying attention to the formation of a series of meanings overlapping themselves, deriving from the literal sense.

Keywords: Italian poetry; Gaspara Stampa’s lyrical poetry; allegory; poetic image; motif of the sun

Aneta Chmiel shows the places semantically unspecified in a poem by Teofil Folengo Baldus.

Keywords: semantic indeterminacy; Italian poetry; Teofil Folengo

Joanna Janusz proves that the unsaid is the means ordering texts by Carlo Emilio Gadda at the intra- extra- and intertextual level.

Keywords: Italian novel; oblique statements; narrative levels; intertextuality

Małgorzata Puto, analysing the works by Davide Bregola, proves that authenticity and directness in expression of feelings guarantees his characters a successful life in the community they belong to.

Keywords: authenticity; directness in expressing one's emotions; short story; Italian literature; social life

The poetics of the para sensation novel written, among others, by Ricardo Piglia, consisting in looking for a lost book is examined by Nina Pluta. The author draws the conclusion that the very narration scheme is a pretext to reflection on the unsaidness which shows the borderline between the language and literature.

Keywords: para-thriller; the motif of a book lost; ineffability; boundaries of language; boundaries of literature

Ewelina Szymoniak raises the issue of the engagement of the modern literature, presenting the two co-existing tendencies visible in the attitude of the Spanish writers, i.e. escapism from the reality in the name of the creative freedom and the conviction that leaving the up-to date social problems aside makes the writer guilty of being an accomplice to the abuse of the capitalistic system.

Keywords: twentieth-century Spanish novel; literary commitment; a contemporary intellectual