CARTOGRAPHY OF CONSCIOUSNESS – ANDRZEJ NIEWIADOMSKI
An opening point for this meeting will be two works by Andrzej Niewiadomski. The first one is the as of yet unpublished “K (esej podróżny),” which also includes the motif of a journey in Haupt’s footsteps. Another one is the essay “Mapa. Prolegomena” (2012). It is probably the first Polish book about a map. It is, however, not aimed at a narrow group of humanists – geography- and cartography-lovers, for it presents the map in a perspective of philosophical and theological reflection, in the perspective of history and aesthetics, in the perspective of the author’s private biography and imagination, as well as what we might call the cartographic praxis – a sphere of mutual influences between cartography and life.
Andrzej Niewiadomski, PhD | Poet, essayist, literary historian, editor. Co-founder and editor of the “Kresy” literary magazine (1989-2010). Has also done literary criticism for over 10 years. Published poetic books, and the essay book “Mapa. Prolegomena” (Lublin, 2012), and academic books, including “Jeden jest zawsze ostrzem. Inna nowoczesność Zygmunta Haupta” (Lublin 2015). He deals with the issues of poetic avant-garde, the newest poetry, metapoetry, catastrophism in the interwar period, the heritage of the interwar period in post-war literature, the dynamics of internal connections within Polish modernistic prose. His poems have been translated to English, German, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Bulgarian, and Spanish. He is director of the Modern Literature Deprtment at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University Lublin.