ПЕВНІ ШЛЯХИ ДО НЕПЕВНИХ ЗЕМЕЛЬ: ДЕКІЛЬКА ЗАУВАГПРО ТРУДНОЩІ КАРТУВАННЯ ТВОРЧОСТІ ДЕВІДА ҐАСКОЙНА

Анотація

The paper ventures to investigate the possibilities of mapping David Gascoyne’s écriture and
outlines the basic problems which anybody attempting such a task will sooner or later face. I seek
to find out what is the actual nature of the allegedly critical shift – in the English poet’s outlook
as well as in his literary style – that appears to have taken place sometime between 1936 and
1939, exactly when and how it happened (if happen it did, that is) and what its significance for
Gascoyne’s poetic development may have been. The paper addresses also what I believe is an all
too common misunderstanding that consists in separating the English poet’s early écriture (which
is at times most curiously seen as including his “surrealist phase”) from his later writing – the
separation all but invariably accompanied by the belief that it is Gascoyne’s later output which
is properly mature and thus worth studying, unlike his earlier, supposedly jejune literary oeuvre
– and interrogates the possibility of construing Gascoyne’s poetic journey in terms of anything
like a development, expansion or growth.