Experience of Distension, Materiality and Transparency: Zenon Fajferâs DOWN as an Experimental Work of Liberature

PrzemysÅaw Koniuszy

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Chapter 16 Experience of Distension, Materiality and Transparency: Zenon Fajferâs DOWN as an Experimental Work of Liberature

In: A Hundred Years of Avant-Gardes

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Pages:: 305â325

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004730380_018

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The chapter discusses SpoglÄdajÄc Przez OzonowÄ DziurÄ (Detect Ozone Whole Nearby): one of the examples of liberature â a literary work in which form and content constitute an inseparable whole. The starting point is Zenon Fajferâs thesis that there is no non-experimental literature, a manifestation of which includes Detect Ozone Whole Nearby: a bottle with a poem. The author analyses the consequences of choosing such a paradigm of creation. It turns out that the totality that is the determinant of Fajferâs experiment affects the deep meanings of his work, which is why Detect Ozone Whole Nearby combines the visible with the invisible, the expressive with the ineffable, the transparent with the impenetrable. In Detect Ozone Whole Nearby Fajfer takes an innovative approach to equating the world presented in the liberatic work with a non-literary reality, overthrowing traditional dichotomies (form-content, matter-spirit) and treating matter as a reservoir of semantic power.

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A Hundred Years of Avant-Gardes

The Literary Experiment in Poland and Beyond 1917-2017

Series:Â Avant-Garde Critical Studies Online, Volume: 46Â andÂ Avant-Garde Critical Studies, Volume: 46

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004730380

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 09 Jan 2026

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