@ARTICLE{Wojda_Dorota_‘The_2019, author={Wojda, Dorota}, number={No 1 (352)}, journal={Ruch Literacki}, pages={43-59}, howpublished={online}, year={2019}, publisher={Polska Akademia Nauk Oddział w Krakowie Komisja Historycznoliteracka}, publisher={Uniwersytet Jagielloński Wydział Polonistyki}, abstract={This article focuses on paralogical figures (amphibology, equivocation, hypallage and syllepsis) in the poems of Jan Zych. Paralogicisms are phrases in which the combination of logical and syntactical form produces an irresolvable semantic conundrum. The article is divided into three parts, each dealing with one aspect of Zych’s handling of the opposition of distance and proximity: air metaphors expressive of the channel of poetic speech; communication by post (letters); and images of the labyrinth. The paralogical figures are discussed in terms of their function as textual building-blocks, a mark of the author’s subjectivity, and an invitation for performative reading. In this way, Zych’s poems, in particular Labirynty (The Labyrinths) are reconstituted as literary performances, analogous to the labyrinthine prose of J. L. Borges and Octavio Paz.}, type={Artykuły / Articles}, title={‘The letters keep on coming, though I’m dead’: Paralogicisms in the poetry of Jan Zych}, URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/108875/PDF/RL%201-19%204-WOJDA.pdf}, doi={10.24425/rl.2018.124787}, keywords={20th-century Polish literature, Polish poetry after 1945, paralogicisms, imagery of distance and proximity, literary labyrinths, Jan Zych (1931–1995), J.L. Borges (1899–1986), Octavio Paz (1914–1998)}, }