'I Cannot Even Kill Myself Because I Want to See': On Looking through Tears

Reading Grzegorz Strumyk's novel Lzy [Tears], Lazarz examines the relationship between the words and images that are called up in the reader's imagination. Reading the novel as an account of the difficult journey towards seeing, Laza rz describes how it traces a path towards a new recognition of suppressed images and towards expressing those images with words; this expression allows further images to emerge, along with their related emotions.The goal of the images that Strumyk creates is not so much a realistic description of the world but a rendering of the protagonists' emotions and experiences - conscious and unconscious. Lazarz pays particular attention to the analysis of Strumyk's symbolic use of shapes and colours.