Textual non-presence : some remarks on Udayan Vajpeyi's poetry

Punktem wyjścia niniejszego tekstu, w którym prezentuję wstępne wyniki moich badań, są założenia dotyczące teorii marzenia sennego (snu), mające swe źródła w psychoanalizie i surrealizmie. Spróbuję przyłożyć te miary do twórczości współczesnego pisarza indyjskiego, by odczytać jej złożony sens. Moim celem jest wytropienie ważniejszych motywów w twórczości poetyckiej pisarza, a także pokazanie, jak stwarza on tekstową rzeczywistość.

The aim of my paper is to discuss some important themes in the poetry of Udayan Vajpeyi, and to show how the writer creates a textual reality. Having the theory of dream/sleep as my point of departure, I try to examine the work of a contemporary Indian writer and read its complex meaning. I present here some preliminary results of my research. The analysis of selected poems from the Kuch vāky volume proves that the author uses a variety of techniques, such as montage or collage, specifically relating to Surrealism, and that visuality is the main theme of his poetry. The relation between word, its shape/image and sound constitutes the framework of space functioning on several levels: a poem becomes an artifact which is visual, spatial (watching), acoustic (listening), meaningful (experience, understanding). Therefore, creating poetry defined in this manner is creating "an image" on one hand, on the other - "imaging" a possible reality by collecting "images" together. In the space of a poem both that what is visible/audible (letter/picture/sound) and that what is invisible/inaudible (space/interval/pause) become important and constitute a certain integrity. Thus, the poetic world of Udayan Vajpeyi goes beyond time, beyond verbal frame, allowing the poet to "write" into it some characters and events belonging to the realm of dreams, imagination, visions, and make them real.