Literatura Kornela Filipowicza jako maszyna do myślenia

Kornel Filipowicz – one of the most outstanding Polish artists of the 20th century – is still one of the little-known authors. His name appears most o¡en in the context of Wisława Szymborska. The poet, together with the writer’s sons Aleksander and Marcin, as well as a group of researchers and friendly writers, she took care to popularize his work. In 2019, the translation of Filipowicz’s he Memoir of an Anti-Hero appeared on the English-speaking publishing market (Penguin Modern Classics). This event contributed to the analysis of Krakow based writer’s work in terms of the links between literature and philosophy. The article refers to the category of „machines for thinking” through which an attempt is made to read Filipowicz’s work in a methodological model that produces philosophical meanings. In this regard, two references to contemporary understandings of cultural and social spaces are particularly mentioned – the disciplinary machine of Michel Foucault and the anthropological machine of Giorgio Agamben.