“And I don’t know – is it in me, or out there, the terrible sound of the storm?”: affective landscapes in Stanisław Przybyszewski’s prose poems (Requiem aeternam, Androgyne, Z cyklu Wigilii, Nad morzem)

This article examines the techniques of affective landscape creation in Stanisław Przybyszewski’s prose poems (or, rhapsodies, as they were called then), i.e. Requiem aeternam (1900; Polish version of the Totenmesse, 1893), Androgyne (1900), Z cyklu Wigilii [From the Vigils cycle] (1899; Polish version of Vigilien, 1895) and Nad morzem [At the Sea side] (1899). The analyses make use of the methodology and insights of the affect approach, somato-poetics and haptic theory to discuss the relationship between the dy namics of Przybyszewski’s landscapes and their psychological resonance, the relation ship between the affects and the non-material elements of space (temperature, the soundscape) and the somatic perception of the landscapes proffered by the poems.