Adam Kaczanowski: zasada radykalnej zabawy

Abstract

The purpose of the text is to present Adam Kaczanowski’s poetry from the perspective of comedy. The author refers to the traditions from which Kaczanowski draws – sarcasm, irony, and dark humor – and then describes the registers of poetry covered by the action of the comic principle. It is expressed in acts of destruction and violence, in metatextual remarks, and in the ontologically non-obvious boundary between humans and animals. Kaczanowski engages in clownery, but it is not an unrisky play: his comedy, supported by a critical approach to a lifestyle dependent on work and consumption, enables staged destructions of the world, which in turn are meant to enable the construction of a subjectivity ready for similar devastation. Key-words: comedy, poetry, destruction, clowning, criticism