Between reality and fiction. Literary contexts of "Kronos" by Witold Gombrowicz

Author in his article analyzes “Kronos”: intimate notes by writer Witold Gombrowicz. Author investigates its language, subject matter and very important literary context of these notes. This context is constituted by famous literary “Diary” by the same writer, in which fictional components play a vital role. In the article there is considered the system of these both written works and it is interpreted as the writer’s intentional antropological project. In this system both texts take up opositional, bipolar places – the first one makes his way towards fiction, the second one – towards autobiographical reality. Author of article points out too that some artificial conventions (less or more adequate) in the area of literature have been established many times in its history in objective to convey empirical reality in the best way possible. These coventions have of necessity literary character. This being the case we can notice literary techniques even in so radically mimetic text as “Kronos”. They are borrowed from literature or they are artistic, linguistic representation of empirical reality. In this meaning intimate notes, of this kind as Gombrowicz’s “Kronos”, they have fictional structure. Besides author of article expresses a view that even the most reference story, in its narrative aspect, must have signs of fiction. Therefore the article shows two sides of specific polarity of “Kronos”: its direction into “mimesis” and facts and its involving in a fiction and literature.Udostępnienie publikacji Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego finansowane w ramach projektu „Doskonałość naukowa kluczem do doskonałości kształcenia”. Projekt realizowany jest ze środków Europejskiego Funduszu Społecznego w ramach Programu Operacyjnego Wiedza Edukacja Rozwój; nr umowy: POWER.03.05.00-00-Z092/17-00. Wydanie publikacji zostało dofinansowane przez Wydział Nauk Społecznych Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego oraz Polskie Towarzystwo Socjologiczne