Published: 2021-12-31

„Brats: Weathered, Malicious and Wise.” Restlessness of Childhood in Leo Lipski’s Prose – Early Works and Niespokojni [The Restless]

Antoni Zając Logo ORCID
Section: Explorations and Autopsies
https://doi.org/10.31261/Rana.2021.4.06

Abstract

The main purpose of this paper is to provide a preliminary analysis of children characters and visions of childhood in the writings of Leo Lipski. Special attention is paid to his early works and to his novel The Restless. The storylines of two characters are interpreted – those of Jano from Śmierć [Death] and Emil from Niespokojni [The Restless]. Drawing from psychoanalysis and Queer Childhood Studies, the author investigates the dialectical notion of childhood to be found in Lipski’s texts. On the one hand, childhood is portrayed there as a period of radical sensitivity and receptivity regarding both sensual stimuli and reactions to tough, distressing or even traumatising experiences; on the other hand, it is a realm of existential experiments of libidinal nature, which often turn into bodily (including erotic and autoerotic) explorations. This paper is meant to be the first in a series of articles regarding the described matter.

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Zając, A. (2021) “„Brats: Weathered, Malicious and Wise.” Restlessness of Childhood in Leo Lipski’s Prose – Early Works and Niespokojni [The Restless]”, Rana. Literatura - Doświadczenie - Tożsamość [Wound. Literature – Experience – Identity], (2 (4), pp. 1–21. doi: 10.31261/Rana.2021.4.06.

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No. 2 (4) (2021)
Published: 2022-04-01


eISSN: 2719-5767
Ikona DOI 10.31261/rana

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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