"Miedzy autorem a podmiotem mówiącym". Pragmatyczne spojrzenie na narrację w pierwszej osobie

Abstract

Text in two contexts: first person narration in novels by Kazimierz Brandys The aim of the book is to characterise first-person narration and describe its main variations with regard to the works of Polish fiction writer Kazimierz Brandys (1916-2000). The first chapter (Between the author and the speaking voice: a pragmatic look at first-person narration) contains a theoretical account of first-person narrativon seen as the form of literary discourse which is particularly exposed to the influence of non-literary doscourse. The analysis deploys, apart from the traditional concepts of literary theory, the categories introduced by linguistic pragmatics, speech acts theory, text theory and communication theory. First-person narration is presented here as a literary representation of a fictional communicative event, i.e. verbal interaction between the narrator and his/her adressee, and as a means of communication between the author and his/her reader. The positioning of the first-person narration text in two situational contexts and subjecting it to two communicative intentions (of the author and the narrator) contributes to its semantic density. Such a text must enable the reader to reconstruct the presented world, including the act of narration with its situational context, and to communicate with the author as if over the narrator's head. Brandys' novels present various artistic strategies in this respect. The analysis of his work give the opportunity to form general conclusions because his usages of first-person narration are diversified and the stages of his literary development are representative to the subsequent stages of the development of Polish postwar literature.